Father jailed for Easter bangers

A FATHER of four was yesterday sentenced to two months in prison after pleading guilty to possessing 250 Easter bangers.

Yiannakis Droushiotis, 44, from Avgorou, was jailed after admitting to possession of the stash, and to off-loading 39 of the illegal explosives during Easter.

His wife, Dora, escaped a prison sentence when her two month sentence was suspended for three years after she pleaded guilty to similar charges before a Larnaca court.

Judge Tefkros Economou took into consideration that she was a mother of four children and that the family would face serious hardship if both parents were in jail.

Teenager Yiannis Yianni, 17, from Avgorou, was fined £200 for buying 19 bangers worth a fraction of the penalty imposed. He avoided a prison term because of his young age.

Economou said the sentences were imposed to serve as a deterrent to what he called a “serious problem during Easter celebrations”.

Every year, scores of people are injured by the lethal, often home made, firecrackers.

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