Paphos People

Developers charged over assault on Briton
By Jean Christou

THE TWO Paralimni property developers at the centre of a police investigation involving an alleged assault on a British home buyer have been charged with bodily harm and malicious damage to personal property, police said yesterday.

Ayia Napa police chief George Economou said the father and son were charged “a few days ago”.

“They were charged with bodily harm and with causing malicious damage to his camera,” said Economou.

The Ayia Napa police chief could not say when the case would reach the courts. “That’s not up to us,” he said. “It’s up to the courts”.

Economou said it could take anything from a month to two months or longer.

The two men were arrested last month and remanded for four days by the Paralimni court for the alleged assault on British buyer Conor O’Dwyer, but then released without charge while police continued their investigations.

These culminated in the charges that have now been filed.

O’Dwyer, 38, spent a week in Larnaca hospital last month after he was beaten up in Frenaros when he went to take pictures of a house he had bought and over which he later came into dispute with the developers. He said they unilaterally cancelled his contract and kept his money, some £75,000 sterling, because he had pulled them up over what he saw as a violation of the terms of the contract. The case is pending at court.

O’Dwyer has widely publicised the details of his dispute with the developers on YouTube and on the website lyingbuilder.com.
In a public statement recently, the developers accused O’Dwyer of allegedly masterminding a plan to extort a newer, more expensive property, and exorbitant damages from the company.

But the company had “failed to adhere to his blackmail requests”.

O’Dwyer says he attempted several times to make the payment because he decided to keep the house despite the differences between the original plan and the reality, but the developers refused to take the due payment, deciding, O’ Dwyer said, that he was giving them too much hassle over the terms of the contract.

They in turn accused him of violating the terms of the contract and said in a letter posted on O’Dwyer’s website that they would be keeping all money paid so far for damages.





Copyright © Cyprus Mail 2008

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Its very strange down that end of the Island.
I lived down there for a few years , they are still in the dark ages
in some of the villages.
A sentence like
"The boy needed to die "
Would stand in court as a good defence ..
there are underworld goings on in that region

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I think that there are underworld goings on all over Cyprus, Neil. Any of the small villages all over the island have the same cultural mores. We have a Cypriot friend who has opened our eyes to the "real" Cyprus.

At least the publicity has forced some police action. Let's hope the judge isn't a family member of the accused.

Verity.

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Which is the norm anyway !

many moons ago, I was working in that area
for a cypriot family that are well connected, this is about 7 years ago..
I was given a ticket by the police for not wearing a helmet on a bike ,, When later that week I was out in the car with the guy I was working for,
I saw the same police man (he was a sergent) I pointed him out the guy I was with, he spun the car round drove up to the police man, then gestured him over to the car.. when he got to the window, the guy grabbed him by his tie shoock him about whilst shouting at him in greek, then shoved him away turned to me and said , you will never get another tick in this town again

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I do not think that this side of the island is any more strange than the West and certainly there is no more underworld activity than Paphos.

Before we came to live on this side of the Island we spent a lot of time in Paphos, we came to know the police chief at that time, very well. He told us then that Russian organised crime and money laundering, was becoming a problem, this was in the early nineties, and that it would get much worse.

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If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs..............you obviously don't have a clue as to how serious things are.

I have to agree with you mate ..

my wife is Russian , she tells me If dont do what she says,
Big sasha will get me ...

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The opportunist..