Greek Cypriot army captain serial killer sentenced to seven life imprisonments for seven murders
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A Greek Cypriot army captain was sentenced to seven life imprisonment terms on Monday after pleading guilty to killing five women and two children in a three-year murder spree in which he preyed on his victims online.
The Nicosia court on Monday handed down five consecutive life sentences to serial killer Nicos Metaxas, 35. Metaxas, was charged with premeditated murder and abduction of five women and two girls – who came from the Philippines, Romania and Nepal – between September. 2016 and July 2018. The two children, aged six and eight, were daughters of two of the women.
Metaxas was taken under heavy security on Monday to a courthouse in the capital Nicosia wearing a bullet-proof vest, and appeared without a lawyer.
He broke down in tears as police read the indictment against him. “I have committed abhorrent crimes,” he said, expressing condolences to the families of the victims.
Police say the accused met the women online. The victims were mostly employed as housekeepers on the island and disappeared between September 2016 and August 2018.
The case, involving the worst peace-time atrocities against women in Cyprus in living memory, has triggered outrage and horror on an island where serious crime is relatively rare, and forced the resignation of the justice minister and sacking of the police chief.
