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[Conor]

Hi Everyone,

For those new to my case, I first published my plight with Christoforos Karayiannas & Son Ltd in Feb 2007. That was after almost a year since the first assault and almost a year of remaining quiet while unknown to us they had unlawfully sold our house. This is todays article in the Sunday Mail followed by my open letter to President Demetris Christofias.

It's sad it's come to this but we and even our lawyer have exhausted pleas to the authorities for a CRIMINAL investigation. We expect this to be a big story in the UK. Our local papers are interviewing us tomorrow for a Thursday print and I have organized media interviews for August outside the High Commission.

Briton in house dispute takes protest to London
By Jean Christou

A BRITISH home buyer whose case in Cyprus has been dragging on for two years without being resolved will camp outside the Cyprus High Commission in London indefinitely, he said yesterday.

Conor O` Dwyer, 38, whose case has been well publicised over the past year has written a letter to President Demetris Christofias asking for justice and intends to begin his indefinite protest “Sleeping Rough for Justice” on August 3.

He said August marked two years since he was to move his family to Cyprus, and August marked the anniversary of when the Minister of the Interior told the media he was looking into the unlawful selling of O’ Dwyer’s house. “So far no investigation has taken place and no arrests have been made,” he said

O’Dwyer said staging an indefinite protest outside the High Commission was all that was left for him to do since the legal system in Cyprus has let him down so badly.

“This battle has totally taken over my life,” he told the Sunday Mail. “If the authorities had done two per cent of the work I did on my case, it would all be over.”

Every detail of O’ Dwyer’s case has been outlined on his website http://www.lyingbuilder.com and he has now set up a new site http://www.ShameOnCyprus.com which will focus initially on his protest in London. He will also post daily bulletins on YouTube.

“I will be there 24 hours a day, seven days a week until I get justice,” he said. “Viewers will be kept up to date with my progress. I will offer expats and Cypriots alike the opportunity to have their plight registered on my website where I hope to highlight a different case against the property industry in Cyprus every day. It is time that the British public is made aware of the pitfalls of buying property before setting foot in Cyprus.”

The British ex soldier spent a week in Larnaca hospital last January after he was beaten up in Frenaros when he went to take pictures of the house he had bought and over which he later came into dispute with the developers.

He says 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. The developers have accused O’ Dwyer of allegedly masterminding a plan to extort a newer more expensive property, and exorbitant damages from the company.

They have however been charged by police in connection with the attack on O’Dwyer in Frenaros but the case has yet to reach the courts.

“I have been assaulted twice by my developers; both incidents were captured on camera. The evidence from the first assault in 2006 has still not been presented in court. Lack of legal action gave the developers free licence to assault me more aggressively in January 2008, where I was hospitalised for six days,” said O’ Dwyer in his letter to Christofias.

He said two weeks later a bar-brawl involving nine British soldiers took place in Ayia Napa. “That case investigated by the same CID branch has already come to court,” he added.

“The nine accused have not been allowed home whereas my developer’s actions are condoned by the industry bodies and estate agents who still have them on their books. I have had no confirmation of an indictment let alone a court date for any of my cases going back over two years.”

He said his was a “slam dunk” case and there was no good reason why it had not yet reached the courts.

“In Cyprus not only does my developer continue without penalty but also no action has been taken against the lawyers who unlawfully sold my house or the lawyer who once represented me and then went on to represent the opposition,” O’ Dwyer said in the letter to the President.

“I will also broadcast onto the internet the recordings of the way I was treated by your police officers who refused to charge the perpetrators according to the law… the Police force and prosecutors in Famagusta are corrupt and racist. My lawyer has had all pleas for justice and an investigation ignored.”

Copyright © Cyprus Mail 2008

An Open letter to the President of the Republic of Cyprus Demetris Christofias.

10th July 2008

Honourable Sir,

Due to the absence of a criminal investigation into the unlawful selling of my house and no sign of a court case against my developer who has assaulted me twice I have now decided to mount an indefinite protest outside the Cypriot High Commission in London. I will be “Sleeping Rough for Justice” at St. James’s Square beginning Sunday 3rd August. I will be there 24 hours a day, seven days a week until I get justice.

This will be a continuous protest where I will be camping out to draw maximum attention to, not only my plight, but also that of thousands of others. I represent Cypriots and ‘foreigners’ who have bought property in Cyprus from unscrupulous developers and lawyers who act with impunity because they are bolstered by your corrupt authorities.

My campaign is funded by me alone but I hope to sustain my demonstration through donations and advertising on my new website http://www.ShameOnCyprus.com. Preparations are well under way for my ‘vigil’. Unlike other demonstrations my protest will be strengthened by the use of wireless broadband and solar power technology and I will be broadcasting live over the internet daily.

Viewers will be kept up to date with my progress. I will offer expats and Cypriots alike the opportunity to have their plight registered on my website where I hope to highlight a different case against the property industry in Cyprus every day. I have already helped others recover their life savings but it is time that the British public is made aware of the pitfalls of buying property before setting foot in Cyprus.

In any law-abiding nation at least one of my cases would already be underway. In Cyprus not only does my developer continue without penalty but also no action has been taken against the lawyers who unlawfully sold my house or the lawyer who once represented me and then went on to represent the opposition. Through my demonstration I will be making the Office of Fair Trading and UK Trading Standards aware of the dishonest Cypriot lawyers, estate agents and developers trading within the UK.

I believe my stand at St James’s Square and the website will be a focal point for the ex-pat community who are suffering at the hands of the Cypriot legal system. The British and Cypriot press will be in constant communication throughout and will be invited to join me at my stand as will the many ex-pats escaping the heat and drought this summer. Over the next few months I will be marshalling the support of the ex-pat community in Cyprus to demonstrate for their property rights at their local land registry offices.

I am a British, family man who loved Cyprus enough to want to settle there. Although Cyprus is a war-torn Island my campaign is in no way connected to this issue. I have never been to the “TRNC” or Turkey but comparisons have been drawn into the way I lost my house on a development called “Ayios Sergios”. Ayios Sergios is the name of a village where Greek Cypriots were displaced from their homes in the 1974 invasion. The comparison between Greek Cypriots not allowed to view their homes in the North and the way I was beaten in front of the whole village of Frenaros for just looking at my house from the road is obvious. No one in Frenaros came to my aid or stepped forward as a witness. This was the village in which my daughters were to go to school.

I have been assaulted twice by my developers; both incidents were captured on camera. The evidence from the first assault in 2006 has still not been presented in court. Lack of legal action gave the developers free licence to assault me more aggressively in January 2008, where I was hospitalised for six days.

Two weeks later a bar-brawl involving 9 British soldiers took place in Ayia Napa. That case investigated by the same CID branch has already come to court and a bar owner is seeking £4 million pounds from the British Government and the soldiers face a 3 – 5 year jail term. The nine accused have not been allowed home whereas my developer’s actions are condoned by the industry bodies and estate agents who still have them on their books. I have had no confirmation of an indictment let alone a court date for any of my cases going back over 2 years.

I will broadcast onto the internet the recordings of the way I was treated by your Police officers who refused to charge the perpetrators according to the law and let the video evidence slip into the crowd. I will also show video of how the perpetrators were shouting at the Police to recover the evidence from a friend of mine that escaped by car. I will continue to exhaust the due legal process and also write my letters to the European Courts but now from St James’s Square.

I loved the Republic of Cyprus that’s why I chose to raise my family and start a business there. I thought I was safe buying within the EU. I have learnt the hard way that the Republic does not respect its own laws never mind the EU constitution. I have learnt that nepotism and corruption is rife on what is fast becoming known as an “Island of Fraud”.

The Police force and prosecutors in Famagusta are corrupt and racist. My lawyer has had all pleas for justice and an investigation ignored. When I get a court date in the Republic I will have to make my first trip to the North to stay and secure my safety. I suggest that it is in the Republic’s interest that my security next month outside the High Commission is guaranteed. I am of course in talks with the Metropolitan Police.

This is my family’s story of buying property in Cyprus (SHAME ON CYPRUS!!)

Cornelius (Conor) O’Dwyer
http://www.ShameOnCyprus.com

Further details and correspondence of what has brought me to this action can be obtained from my lawyer Yiannos G. Georgiades of Georgiades & Mylonas, Nicosia or my original website http://www.lyingbuilder.com

Copy to: The Cypriot High Commissioner - London, Attorney-General of the Republic, The Chief of Police, the Cyprus Bar Association, The Minister of Justice, Minister of Interior, Cyprus Tourism Organisation, District Administration Offices, Minister of Finance, Accountant General, Department of Information Technology Services, Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), British High Commission Nicosia, Jim Murphy Minister for Europe and South East UK MEP’s.

[bill cobbett]

Good Luck mate.

[Cheshire Cat]

All the very best Conor.

[Conor]

Thanks you two.

Anything you can do to spread the word would be appreciated.

Cheers

Conor

[cyprusgeoff]

All the very best to you and I wish you good luck.

I am e-mailing all the info. to everyone I know and asking them in turn to pass it on to all their friends and and then on to all their contacts.

In time the whole world will know what disgusting behavior goes on in this island.

It's appalling that Cyprus is now in the EEC yet the justice system has less
trust and respect than it has in Zimbabwe.

Crooked builders, crooked developers and crooked estate agents all greedy for money and they are prepared to anything it seems to continue that position.

In my view the Cyprus property gravy train is now slowing and when it comes to a halt I sincerely hope a lot of these greedy people go broke in a big way.

[Maynard23]

Conor, as you are British I think you should have a little more sense than to sling so much mud at the Cypriot government, you say you will be sleeping rough in St James,s Square, well done mate, other than outside Number 10 Downing Street you have probably chosen the dead centre of the most liardly and corrupt government on the face of the earth.
You insult the President of Cyprus and expect him to act on your behalf, did it not occur to you that he might be aware of who started all the trouble in Cyprus due to the corrupt policies of the British who were in league with the Yanks.
Britain allowed many good men with stronger cases for justice to die of starvation in the prisons they were put in in there own country, I doubt if they will have much truck with you and your insulting campaign against those who you are at loggerheads with.
There are thousands of people in Cyprus who have suffered at the hands of the corrupt British and there dodgy politics, you are grain of sand in the desert mate, keep plenty of sarnies with you, you can always have a go at hunger striking "If you are Irish", you may even end up being shot as a terrorist if you go too strong.
Leave Cyprus alone mate, they have enough troubles to sort out as a result of British interference without your little knife in the back, Ihope it pisses with rain while you sleep rough, maybe Gordon Brown will take pity on you and give you some worn out blankets.

[Rebel.Without.A.Pause]

Conor, you wont be winning many friends here with a misleading and silly website name like www.shameoncyprus.com.

In time the whole world will know what disgusting behavior goes on in this island.

It's appalling that Cyprus is now in the EEC yet the justice system has less
trust and respect than it has in Zimbabwe.

Lets not even start with England shall we.

Or shall we...who wants to start??

1)... British Justice System. Boys who carry knives get a warning yet boys who carry out graffiti art (which is a better past time than stabbing and playing gang warfare) get put in jail.

[Oracle]

The British ex soldier ....

Hhhmmm

[bill cobbett]

The British ex soldier ....

Hhhmmm

Biting one's tongue Mrs O ?

[cyprusgeoff]

Perhaps the site www.shameoncyprus.com will get things noticed? what are you so worried about?

Afraid the truth be told probably.

Or are you related to some of the thugs that attacked Conor or some of the crooked developers and builders?