A 35-year-old woman was remanded in custody for seven days by Paphos District Court on Wednesday, at the request of police, in connection with the fatal stabbing of a 51-year-old British man in Peyia.
The woman is the girlfriend of a 20-year-old who allegedly admitted stabbing the man. She is alleged to have abandoned the victim in a car while taking him to hospital as he bled.
According to the evidence under investigation, the young man, who is the son of the victim’s partner, asked her to drive the 51-year-old to Paphos General Hospital after he was wounded with a knife.
On the way, she allegedly panicked and abandoned the car a short distance from the house where the stabbing took place. The victim was left in the passenger seat, where passers-by later found him.
The woman was arrested on Tuesday afternoon under a court warrant, as police wanted to question her.
The victim’s 42-year-old partner and her son are already being held on an eight-day remand order issued by Paphos District Court in the same case.
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 earlier behaved aggressively and was holding a knife, and that the son intervened. Police are investigating the claims.
Police found bloodstains at the house and the floor appeared to have been recently mopped, the court heard.
The young man also showed police a spot known as Kakoskali in the Akamas, where, according to his statement, he threw away the knife.
Police are continuing their investigation.
