Jealousy leads to false kidnap claim

WELFARE services have been called in after a ten-year-old girl falsely claimed that she had been a victim of an attempted abduction on Tuesday evening in Limassol.

The girl, whose parents are Ukrainian and Greek Cypriot, told police that while walking along the road she had been approached by a man in a car who tried to force her into his vehicle. In her original statement she said that two men had rushed to her assistance but later admitted that she had made up the story as she felt slightly neglected by her parents as her mother had recently given birth to twins.

Limassol CID chief Ioannis Soteriades told the Cyprus Mail that the young girl had felt she was no longer the centre of attention and made up the story.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.