Police have arrested a 35-year-old woman they had been seeking to help with inquiries into the killing of a 51-year-old British man in Peyia. Police believe she was driving the car into which the injured man was put to be taken to hospital.
The woman, a permanent resident of Cyprus originally from Scotland and the girlfriend of the 20-year-old suspect, was arrested on a court warrant. Police had told Paphos District Court that she appeared to have been driving when the suspect and his mother put the injured man in the car.
Police are examining whether she panicked when she realised how seriously he was hurt and abandoned the car where it was later found, and whether she or the mother called the ambulance service.
Investigation
Police are also searching the Akamas peninsula for the knife. The 20-year-old, who police say has admitted wounding the man, said in a voluntary statement that he threw the knife away in the Kakoskali area of Akamas after the incident, and agreed to show officers the spot.
He and his 42-year-old mother, the victim’s partner, were remanded in custody for eight days by Paphos District Court.
In their statements, the mother and son said the 51-year-old often had outbursts, which they blamed on cocaine use, and frequently caused jealous scenes over his partner. They said that on Monday afternoon he brandished a knife, and that the son stepped in and wounded him in the abdomen in the scuffle that followed.
Police told the court that the pair had so far been careful not to implicate anyone else in the events of Monday night. Officers who went to the house where the three lived found bloodstains, and the floors had clearly just been mopped.
Five statements have been taken so far, and another 50 are expected from the victim’s family, work and social circles.
