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[erolz]

Does anyone have more information on this?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4319385.stm

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,3 ... 27,00.html

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... ntrnccrime

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4214308

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.ph ... 8&cat_id=1

They all say pretty much the same thing. Could I also respectfully ask that we do not 'politicise' this event. It is not political - just a human tradgedy - and to use ti to make political points would be an insult to the memory of these people (whom I knew slightly and my partner knew well). Thanks

[boulio]

i dont want to politicize it,because i will be called arrogant but has anyone found out if the british couple were living in a t/c property or a former g/c property.because if they were then it does become a politized issue,even though it truly was a tradegy for a elderly couple.

[Alexandros Lordos]

“He confessed that he killed them because they used dirty words, he said, against him.

“I think his mother and father worked for a while for that couple and I think the couple helped him with his education in the past.”

Committing murder with such motives ("because they used dirty words") and under such circumstances (they even helped him with his education, clearly they were his benefactors) is a classic symptom of psychosis, as I said in another thread. The boy was ill, probably paranoid schizophrenic, and I suspect a statement will come out to this effect in a couple of days.

[cannedmoose]

I can't see this as a political issue whatsoever. In most other countries it would simply be regarded as a horrible act of violence commited by a young man in desperate need of psychiatric treatment and isolation from mainstream society. Without evidence to the contrary, this is all it was, no political motive, no racial motive. And rather than denigrating the loss of two defenseless elderly folk because they owned illegal property, they should be seen as victims of a terrible crime (I'm sure that someone will point to their 'terrible crime', but to do so completely misses the point and demonstrates a certain lack of humanity).

Erolz, since your family knew them in a way... my condolences friend.

[brother]

My condolences as well erol for the loss of your family friends.

[Viewpoint]

All sympathy to the deceased family & friends, but if you have seen pics of the 17yo who has confessed to killing the couple, he is all of 5ft nothing and very thin in build whereas the murdered gentleman was over 6ft and big build so was his wife of big build, a terrible crime, the north is still in shock,get the feeling hes taking the wrap for this?????

boulio
[/quote] dont want to politicize it,because i will be called arrogant but has anyone found out if the british couple were living in a t/c property or a former g/c property.because if they were then it does become a politized issue,even though it truly was a tradegy for a elderly couple.[/quote]

The press states they were living in a pre 1974 GC property.

[brother]

What difference does it make what property they were living in, i fail to understand the reason or importance to this question.

[boulio]

think of it as karma,if they didnt commit a illegal act(purchasing a g/c refugee home),the illegal act of murder would not have found them either.

old greek saying:

ola edo plironode.

[brother]

So when do you think this long awaited karma will hit those in EOKA and TMT?

[boulio]

brother it already has:

eoka b- tried enosis lost,lost ancestrial homes and many became refugees in there own country

tmt- tried partition and instead have been in limbo with there status as a community(non-recognition)and have become a minorty(settlers) in there northern cyprus