Focus on DNA evidence in Limassol stabbing

POLICE investigations continued yesterday into the murder of 34-year-old Yiannakis Christodoulou on New Year’s Day with no sign of the two culprits who sped away from the scene. 

Christodoulou, aka ‘Foxy’ was stabbed five times, four in the front and once in the back as he scuffled with two men on January 1 in a residential area of Polemidia in Limassol after they had initially cut him off in their car.

The investigations are focusing on genetic material found at the scene and also the victim’s phone records according to Limassol CID chief Yiannis Soteriades.

“We are examining all the evidence as we continue to question people in an attempt to speedily investigate the case,” he said.

Soteriades confirmed that Christodoulou had entered a witness protection programme for a specific case but that he had been released from the programme eight years ago. Police are continuing to monitor footage from closed circuit television that captured the route Christodoulou’s car took on the evening in question. The footage confirmed eye-witness reports that the two perpetrators had fled the scene in a dark coloured car according to Soteriades.

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