Image: Mehmet Akpinar aka Memos
NICOSIA, Cyprus – A Greek Cypriot woman says a British man was fatally stabbed in the popular coastal resort of Ayia Napa after he and another Briton were scolded by two Turkish Cypriot men for urinating in a public place.
The Cyprus News Agency reports the 48-year-old woman named as Koulla Anastasiou from the Kamares district of Larnaca told the Famagusta District Court Wednesday that her 22-year-old Turkish Cypriot boyfriend disclosed to her that he and a 42-year-old Turkish Cypriot friend had perpetrated the attack.
George Low, a 22-year-old from Kent, England was killed in the stabbing.
The Greek Cypriot woman also told the court she picked up her boyfriend from the resort shortly after Sunday’s pre-dawn stabbing and helped him change clothes.
She says she returned there a second time to collect his mobile telephone from a spot where he had hidden it.
Arrest warrants are out for two Turkish Cypriot men, Mehmet Akpinar aka Memos, 22, and Sali Ahmet, 43, who are believed to have fled to the Turkish occupied part of Cyprus in the North.Pressure is being put on the north to hand over the two suspects to stand trial for the killing.
Police told the court they are also looking for a third Turkish Cypriot from Nicosia for whom they believe helped the suspects escape.
Sali Ahmet