Stabbed man’s body found stuffed in suitcase

POLICE have arrested two people in relation to a gruesome murder of a Bangladeshi man, 25, after his stabbed and dismembered body was found, yesterday morning, stuffed into a suitcase in the boot of a red Honda Civic. 

The car, belonging to the victim, was in a car park on Eschylou Street, near Plato’s bar, around 150 metres from the flat where he was living. It had been there since Saturday.

The victim had bled to death after being stabbed in the neck, state pathologist Sophoclis Sophocleous said. He reportedly had fingers cut off in one hand, presumably from defending himself, state broadcaster CyBC said. 

The victim’s flatmate and another person were arrested yesterday evening in relation to the death.

Members of Nicosia CID arrived at the scene yesterday morning with two state pathologists, Sophocleous and Nicholas Charalambous, who carried out a post-mortem at the scene.

Police originally received a phone call from a member of public – a Cypriot – informing them of the incident. According to the informant, a Bangladeshi man had told him that in the early hours of Saturday he found his flatmate, dead in his bed. 

In his panic at finding the body, the flatmate decided to place the 25-year-old’s dead body into a suitcase and put it in the boot of the car

Some reports suggested neighbours had overheard a furious row in the flat late on Friday night.