A 25-year-old man was handed two consecutive life sentences by the Limassol Assize Court after pleading guilty to the premeditated murders of 39-year-old Andrea Kouzoupis and 38-year-old Slovak national David Chmelar, which occurred on the Parekklisia-Kellakiou road on July 30, 2024.
The 25-year-old is expected to act as a prosecution witness in the ongoing judicial proceedings against his 21-year-old co-defendant, who has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The post mortem showed that the two victims had been shot in the head before they were found in a burnt vehicle. During their interrogations, the defendants provided conflicting claims regarding the circumstances under which the crime was committed.
According to facts presented in court regarding the 25-year-old, he had gone with a second person to the area near the water tank of the village of Arakapas in the Limassol district and met the two victims, who were killed with a shotgun.
It was noted in court that the 25-year-old was not the person who pulled the trigger. The victims’ vehicle was later taken to the Listovounou area, pushed onto a side road and left immobilized against a tree. Afterwards, the 25-year-old and his companion went to a petrol station, bought gasoline, returned and set the vehicle alight with the victims inside.
In the subsequent court proceedings before the Criminal Court, the 25-year-old initially denied the charges but later admitted to the premeditated murder of the two victims.