Urination ‘provokes knife attack’ in Cyprus
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A BRITISH man was fatally stabbed in Cyprus’s popular coastal resort of Ayia Napa after he and another Briton were scolded by two Turkish Cypriot men for urinating in public, a woman told a Cypriot court yesterday.
George Low, a 22-year-old from Kent, England, was killed early on Sunday and another 22-year-old Briton was seriously wounded in a pre-dawn attack by two knife-wielding men along a busy Ayia Napa street. Police said the stabbings happened after the Britons got into a shoving match with one of their attackers.
The Cyprus News Agency reported that a 48-year-old woman told the Famagusta District Court that her 22-year-old Turkish Cypriot boyfriend disclosed to her that he and a 42-year-old friend had perpetrated the attack. Police said they are treating the case as premediated murder and attempted murder.
The Greek Cypriot woman also told the court she picked up her boyfriend from the resort shortly after the stabbing and helped him change clothes, then returned to collect his mobile telephone from a spot where he had hidden it.
The woman hasn’t been charged yet, but the court placed her in police custody for eight days to give investigators time to prepare a case against her as an accessory after the fact.
A police spokesman said the authorities are still searching for the two alleged attackers.
They have been identified as 22-year-old Mehmet Akpinar and 42-year-old Sali Ahmet.
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