A third police investigation into alleged domestic violence by suspended Paphos mayor Phedon Phedonos has opened after officers seized medical records from a news website that published documents appearing to show his wife was treated at a Nicosia hospital in 2017 for injuries described as a “beating by husband.”
Officers from the Nicosia Criminal Investigation Department went to the offices of the Reporter website shortly before midday on Wednesday and seized the documents under order. Cyprus Police confirmed the seizure to philenews. Reporter had said the documents were provided by a source acting in the public interest.
The documents, which police believe to be originals, purport to show that Phedonos’s wife, Louiza Andreou, attended the Accident and Emergency department of Nicosia General Hospital on the evening of 13 March 2017. In the field marked “MAIN SYMPTOM” on one document, a handwritten note reads “beating by husband.” A second document shows she underwent a radiological examination. A third, in the field marked “DIAGNOSIS,” carries a handwritten note reading “Reported beating,” followed by “Injury to skull, neck, femur.” The documents bear the signature of the examining doctor.
According to electronic records also seen by Phileleftheros, Andreou visited the A&E department on 13 March 2017 and remained until 23:59. She returned to a public orthopaedic department on 17 March 2017, and made a further visit on 30 May 2017 — approximately two and a half months after the incident.
A further document in Phileleftheros’s possession is an alleged letter addressed to former President Nikos Anastasiades, the Speaker of Parliament, the Attorney General, the Chief of Police and party leaders, attributing various matters to the suspended mayor including the domestic violence allegation. The date of the letter is unknown.
Police consider the hospital documents to be original A&E patient records from Nicosia General Hospital. If their authenticity is confirmed, the documents will carry investigative value, though whether they are sufficient to support a court case cannot be determined at this stage. The police communications officer, Marina Christodoulidou, said officers had been instructed to collect the documents, which would be evaluated.
It will be the third investigation into the same allegations. The first was conducted between 2018 and 2019. Former Police Chief Kyros Michailides, speaking on Sigma TV on 26 January, said the evidence at the time was incomplete, several individuals were asked to give statements but declined, and the case was sent to the Law Office, which instructed that it not proceed due to insufficient evidence. “The matter is now returning with — apparently — more evidence. Various documents have been presented,” he said.
The second investigation was opened on police initiative in January 2026 and recently concluded. According to information available to Phileleftheros at the time, it too was not expected to go to court due to insufficient evidence, after the file was evaluated by the Law Office.
Michailides said of the newly surfaced documents: “It is a piece of evidence and, of course, in such evidence consideration is always given to who is providing that material to the police. Further investigations are conducted because there are obviously names on those specific documents. So the individuals who either had X-rays taken or whose doctors made an assessment will need to be called to give statements. So it is significant evidence that needs to be processed and its authenticity established — whether it is genuinely a real document or something else.”
Phedonos, writing approximately two months ago, said he welcomed the investigation and attributed it to dark motives involving political and financial entanglement and organised crime aimed at his political elimination.
His wife has twice addressed the matter on social media. “I want to state that I never reported my husband to the police,” she wrote. “The claims that I reported my husband to the police and that I gave a statement or statements are completely false.” In an earlier post, she said those who know her in her professional, family and social circle know she is not a victim and does not feel fear.
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