Police hunt father who kidnapped son

POLICE are still searching for an eight-year-old boy abducted from England by his father, and thought to have arrived on the island three weeks ago.Police said yesterday they could not rule out that Savvas Stylianou, a British national, and his son Anthony had somehow left the island by sea.They said that their investigations had established that the two had arrived from Rhodes on August 7 but did not show up at the Limassol hotel where Stylianou said they would be staying.”The father was allowed to see his son but he broke a court order and basically kidnapped the child and left England without the mother’s permission,” said an Interpol officer said at the time.The Metropolitan police in Barkingside, London, sent a message to Cyprus Interpol for assistance on realising the father had fled to the island on August 7.Stylianou, 35, breached an English court order by leaving the UK with his son Anthony after a scheduled visit to his former wife’s home.The two divorced in 1996, and since then Anthony has been living with his mother Helen but remains a ward of court.Police describe the boy as suffering from “serious medical problems” with a history of epilepsy and asthma.They have been investigating whether he visited a private clinic on the island because of his illness.”What we are trying to do is locate their whereabouts to facilitate the father’s appearance in court. It’s really a judicial matter,” police spokesman Glafcos Xenos said.

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