Essex girl power lands tourists in court

By Charlie Charalambous

FOUR YOUNG British women were charged yesterday with causing actual bodily harm after attacking a Cypriot man and his wife in Ayia Napa on Wednesday night.

British tourists Georgina Mookings, 24, Zoe Thompson, 22, Melanie Swain, 25, and Jennie O’Sullivan, 24, all from Essex, were charged with assault and causing actual bodily harm and released from custody.

According to police, the incident happened at around 11.30pm on Wednesday when one of the girls is thought to have thrown a bottle at a car driven by 35-year-old Pavlos Kyriakou from Liopetri.

And it seems the women took girl power a little too far when the Cypriot couple got out of the car to confront them.

“When the driver and his wife got out to ask why the girls had damaged the car it seems they were attacked,” a police spokesman told the Cyprus Mail yesterday.

In the ensuing scuffle, the driver received light injuries, mainly scratches to the face, but his 30-year-old wife Chrystalla suffered more serious injury.

“His wife Chrystalla was hit in the genitals and began to bleed. She was later taken to a private clinic, treated by a gynaecologist and released,” police said.

The tourists were charged and released later yesterday and are expected to appear in court to answer the charges within the next few days.

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