A search of the Akamas peninsula for the knife used to fatally stab a 51-year-old man in Peyia on Monday ended without result on Wednesday and will resume on Thursday morning across a wider area.
Wednesday’s search covered a large part of the peninsula. It followed a voluntary statement by the 20-year-old son of the victim’s 42-year-old partner, who said he threw the knife away at a spot known as Kakoskali on the night of the killing. He has already shown police the location.
His 35-year-old girlfriend backed his account of where the weapon was dumped, according to what was heard in court on Wednesday, when Paphos District Court remanded her in custody for seven days. She said she and the 20-year-old went to Akamas that night to get rid of it.
Her version differed from his on one point. She claimed that both men were holding knives inside the home the 51-year-old shared with the 42-year-old during the incident, and that both knives were thrown away at Kakoskali.
The woman was arrested on Tuesday afternoon under a court warrant. According to the evidence under investigation, the son asked her to drive the wounded man to Paphos General Hospital. On the way she allegedly panicked and abandoned the car a short distance from the house, leaving him in the passenger seat, where passers-by later found him.
The 20-year-old and his mother are being held on an eight-day remand order issued by the same court. At an earlier hearing, the court heard that the son had allegedly admitted stabbing the man during a fight at their home. In their statements, mother and son claimed the victim had behaved aggressively and was holding a knife, and that the son intervened. Police are investigating the claims.
Police also found bloodstains at the house, and the floor appeared to have been recently mopped, the court heard.
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