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Anger over murdered soldier’s dropped prosecution

Growing discontent over how authorities handled the investigations into the death of conscript Thanasis Nicolaou has triggered public anger as social media support groups organised a protest on 12 July outside the

30th June 2023

Cyprus

Family of murdered soldier to launch private prosecution

The family of army conscript Thanasis Nicolaou will file a private criminal case after the Attorney General closed the investigation of his death in 2005 without prosecution, despite evidence showing he was

28th June 2023

Cyprus

DNA could be key to soldier’s murder

Attorney General George Savvides told the parents of murdered soldier Thanasis Nicolaou that police are looking into DNA evidence collected 17 years ago. Army conscript Nicolaou, 26, was found dead under a

25th November 2022

Cyprus

Stench of cover-up in soldier’s death

Investigators tasked with probing the death of army conscript Thanasis Nicolaou, found under a Limassol bridge 17 years ago, believe there was a ‘sickening’ cover-up to make it look like suicide. At

26th September 2022

Cyprus

Time for lady justice to awake

We are wanton to believe that justice exists to protect the weak from the strong, law-abiding citizens from the rule breakers. An idea of natural justice among us boils to the surface

18th September 2022

Comment/Cyprus

Probe finds soldier’s 2005 death not suicide

Attorney General George Savvides has committed to do everything in his power to allocate responsibility for the death of a soldier who died in 2005 after investigators found evidence that he was

15th September 2022

Cyprus