A self-confessed serial killer, on Monday received seven life sentences, after he pleaded guilty to killing five foreign women and two children in a murder spree that went undetected for three years.
Nicos Metaxas, a 35-year old captain of the Cypriot National Guard, pleaded guilty to a total of 12 of charge relating to the premeditated murder and abduction of the seven victims.
The victims came from Romania, Philippines, Nepal and were murdered between September 2016 and July 2018.
The case was the worst ever peace time atrocity in Cypriot living memory and caused abhorrence and horror to the islanders.
It led to the resignation of the justice minister and the chief of police after it was found out that some of the victims had been reported as missing persons and the police failed to effectively investigate their disappearance.
Metaxas was taken under heavy security on Monday to a courthouse in the capital Nicosia…
Source: News Agency of Nigeria
