Fanieros ‘wanted to invite assailants for coffee’

ATTEMPTED murder victim Antonis Fanieros wanted to invite his would-be killers in for coffee before they riddled him with bullets, a criminal court heard yesterday.

Fanieros, 57, completed his testimony yesterday by saying he saw two people on a bike outside his gambling club on May 29 and went to call them in for coffee before shots were fired in his direction.

Three Aeroporos brothers, Hambis, 35, Andros, 30 and Panicos, 25, are accused of his attempted murder.

Chief prosecution witness Tassos Simellides, already convicted as the get- away driver, has implicated all three and said Panicos fired the shots that evening.

The trial in Nicosia continues.

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