Punched by his developer

A NICOSIA man yesterday changed his plea to guilty minutes before his trial into the beating of a 33-year-old man started.
The suspect confessed to the charge of assault causing actual bodily harm and will be sentenced next month.
According to the plaintiff the suspect had assaulted him for no apparent reason in 2007. He said he had bought an apartment from the suspect’s brother but because there had been a number of delays in delivering the property on the agreed handover date he had withheld a final payment of €3,400.
“On the day in question I was having some expensive furniture delivered and so went by the apartment only to find the developer and his brother, a carpenter, had changed the locks until I settled what I owed,” he said.
However a third brother, who was a plumber, was at the apartment at the time and let the 33-year-old in. The developer then phoned his brother, the carpenter, to come to the building where the latter assaulted the 33-year-old. “He punched me in the face and I started bleeding,” he said. The 33-year-old said he had reported the incident because the carpenter had had no right to hit him.

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