A MAN was arrested yesterday in connection with the brutal murder of a Sri Lankan woman at a pig farm in the Limassol district.
According to police spokesman Michalis Katsounotos, police arrested a 36-year-old Sri Lankan man at around 6pm yesterday in connection with the investigation into the death of a 37-year-old compatriot. He is due in court today for a remand hearing.
The 37-year-old was declared missing on March 3 from the pig farm where she had been working for a year and a half in Monagroulli. Twelve days later, on Tuesday, her co-workers called police when they spotted a hand sticking out of a lake of wastewater at the farm.
The hand belonged to the woman who was pulled out of the wastewater with her feet bound together and body tied to a concrete block.
State pathologist Eleni Antoniou conducted a post mortem yesterday, noting that the woman had probably died more than ten days before she was found.
According to Antoniou, the 37-year-old died as a result of head injuries, “caused from multiple wounds using a curved and sharp instrument”.
“It is a criminal act. The head has five wounds, of which four are on the scalp and one on the lower jaw,” she said, adding that the victim also suffered injury to the left palm and a fracture of the left wrist.
She added that the victim was not likely alive at the time when the killer or killers tied her to a concrete block and threw her into the two-metre deep lake of wastewater.
Antoniou ruled out the possibility of the perpetrators having sexually abused the victim prior to the murder.
According to reports, police have been focusing their investigations on the circle of people around the 37-year-old and have not ruled out anything. A number of her compatriots and co-workers gave statements to the police yesterday.
Katsounotos said police were comparing their statements with the investigation conducted almost two weeks ago when the woman was first declared missing.
Police are also looking for the scene of the crime and are searching the surrounding area to determine the origin of the concrete block used to sink her body in the lake of waste.
