Nine years for attempted murder of stepson

A man was sentenced to nine years in prison on Friday after he was convicted by the Paphos court of trying to kill his 15-year-old stepson last year.

On July 6, a 19-year-old woman reported to police that at 11.40pm, her stepfather, 40, attacked her teenage brother and tried to strangle him with a rope during a fight with her mother and her three minor siblings at their home in Peyia.

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.