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[purdey]

Cyprus has always been marketed at the cheaper end of the tourist market in the UK. Keo seems to slip off the tongue alot easier than a simple Greek word to the majority of tourists. No excuse for bad behaviour but the likes of Napa have rather a bad reputation for a anything goes destination with very little enforcement from the local police.

[Oracle]

It's got nothing to do with nanny state or social benefits. It is purely sun, alcohol and cheap prices and the locals turning a blind eye to bad behaviour. Look at Riga and Prague prime example at letting tourists run riot Italians, Germans and French included and then regretting it, now they have a no tolerance approach.

Yes purdey ... but how much pent up frustration has been building up, over 50 weeks, to allow this psychotic overflow to happen?

The Brits have the longest working week in Europe and the least number of holidays. So that leads to some stressed out workers. Then there are the over-molly-coddled subclasses who don't work, and feed off this milk-train ... and Bingo you have a whole lotta people who are approaching their annual holiday in the wrong frame of mind.

The few wealthy, relaxed types seem to carry the can, probably go further afield .

'An Oracle is a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic opinion; an infallible authority'

Are you the exception that proves the rule?

How do exceptions prove the rule?

[denizaksulu]

Lets not forget that these undesirables have enough training in the UK.

Every weekend you see them practicing their drunken behaiviour.

[sweetie pie]

I feel no shame for this tragic event. I took no part in it and condemn the actions of these people like any right thinking person would do but having said that, it isn't ALL Brits who are responsible. Just like it isn't all Cypriots who are responsible for the actions of the 39 Cypriots in British prisons serving sentences for a range of offences which include murder and actual bodily harm.

[Oracle]

Example.

two english people in jail that killed a cypriot they wont do well in a cypriot prison, how many times a day will they be beaten and how much will police care to stop it?

Dont be surprised if the lawyer representing these two at the legal appeal against extradition from the UK to Cyprus uses comments like this as justification not to extradite.

Looks like the British Courts are beginning to respect the decisions of the Cypriot Courts a little more!

.... The final decision:



Cousins lose Cyprus manslaughter extradition battle

Cousins Luke Atkinson and Michael Binnington have lost their High Court battle against extradition to Cyprus where they face three-year jail sentences for the manslaughter of a Cypriot teenager.

Published: 11:36AM BST 17 Jun 2009

(L-R) Michael Binnington and Luke Atkinson have lost their High Court battle against extradition to Cyprus where they face three-year jail sentences for the manslaughter of Christos Papiris

The pair, both 24, from Witham, Essex, were originally cleared of blame for the death of Christos Papiris, 17, in a road crash but later convicted in their absence.

On Wednesday Lord Justice Maurice Kay and Mr Justice Collins, sitting in London, ruled it was impossible to say the Cypriot trial process as a whole had been flawed and violated their right to a fair trial.

Larnaca Assize Court acquitted them of involvement in the death of Christos and causing serious injury to another on the moped, but in January 2008 the Supreme Court of Cyprus found them guilty.

The court ruled evidence showed the pair had "undoubtedly encouraged" Harrington to pursue the moped to take revenge after a fight outside a nightclub.

They were sentenced to three years in a Cypriot jail for culpable manslaughter and one year for grievous bodily harm, the sentences to run concurrently.

Refusing to block extradition, Mr Justice Collins said: "It is in the circumstances quite impossible to say that they were prejudiced or that the trial process as a whole failed to comply with Article 6 (of the European Convention on Human Rights).

"They were involved in a course of conduct which led to the death of one and serious injury to another wholly innocent young man."

Harrington, also from Witham, is serving a 15-year jail sentence after admitting manslaughter and causing grievous bodily harm.

Atkinson and Binnington said they were only involved "unwittingly" in the death as back seat passengers in a highly drunken state.

The extradition of both men was ordered by District Judge Quentin Purdy at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court in January after European Arrest Warrants were issued against them.

At London's High Court their QC, Alun Jones, said they had been denied a proper opportunity to defend themselves in Cyprus.

He argued Judge Purdy had erred when he ruled that the pair "deliberately absented themselves from their trial" before the Supreme Court.

Mr Jones said the Supreme Court hearing was effectively an appeal - not a trial.

He said: "It did not have the quality of a trial or a re-hearing and cannot properly be said to be a trial."

The QC argued that jailing the cousins without a proper re-hearing amounted to a breach of their human rights

But the judges rejected all his submissions and upheld the decision to extradite.

Source: Telegraph

[Gregory]

Example.

two english people in jail that killed a cypriot they wont do well in a cypriot prison, how many times a day will they be beaten and how much will police care to stop it?

Dont be surprised if the lawyer representing these two at the legal appeal against extradition from the UK to Cyprus uses comments like this as justification not to extradite.

Looks like the British Courts are beginning to respect the decisions of the Cypriot Courts a little more!

.... The final decision:



Cousins lose Cyprus manslaughter extradition battle

Cousins Luke Atkinson and Michael Binnington have lost their High Court battle against extradition to Cyprus where they face three-year jail sentences for the manslaughter of a Cypriot teenager.

Published: 11:36AM BST 17 Jun 2009

(L-R) Michael Binnington and Luke Atkinson have lost their High Court battle against extradition to Cyprus where they face three-year jail sentences for the manslaughter of Christos Papiris

The pair, both 24, from Witham, Essex, were originally cleared of blame for the death of Christos Papiris, 17, in a road crash but later convicted in their absence.

On Wednesday Lord Justice Maurice Kay and Mr Justice Collins, sitting in London, ruled it was impossible to say the Cypriot trial process as a whole had been flawed and violated their right to a fair trial.

Larnaca Assize Court acquitted them of involvement in the death of Christos and causing serious injury to another on the moped, but in January 2008 the Supreme Court of Cyprus found them guilty.

The court ruled evidence showed the pair had "undoubtedly encouraged" Harrington to pursue the moped to take revenge after a fight outside a nightclub.

They were sentenced to three years in a Cypriot jail for culpable manslaughter and one year for grievous bodily harm, the sentences to run concurrently.

Refusing to block extradition, Mr Justice Collins said: "It is in the circumstances quite impossible to say that they were prejudiced or that the trial process as a whole failed to comply with Article 6 (of the European Convention on Human Rights).

"They were involved in a course of conduct which led to the death of one and serious injury to another wholly innocent young man."

Harrington, also from Witham, is serving a 15-year jail sentence after admitting manslaughter and causing grievous bodily harm.

Atkinson and Binnington said they were only involved "unwittingly" in the death as back seat passengers in a highly drunken state.

The extradition of both men was ordered by District Judge Quentin Purdy at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court in January after European Arrest Warrants were issued against them.

At London's High Court their QC, Alun Jones, said they had been denied a proper opportunity to defend themselves in Cyprus.

He argued Judge Purdy had erred when he ruled that the pair "deliberately absented themselves from their trial" before the Supreme Court.

Mr Jones said the Supreme Court hearing was effectively an appeal - not a trial.

He said: "It did not have the quality of a trial or a re-hearing and cannot properly be said to be a trial."

The QC argued that jailing the cousins without a proper re-hearing amounted to a breach of their human rights

But the judges rejected all his submissions and upheld the decision to extradite.

Source: Telegraph

I hope they get to share a cell with the biggest homosexual this country has to offer.

[Z4]

Example.

two english people in jail that killed a cypriot they wont do well in a cypriot prison, how many times a day will they be beaten and how much will police care to stop it?

Dont be surprised if the lawyer representing these two at the legal appeal against extradition from the UK to Cyprus uses comments like this as justification not to extradite.

Looks like the British Courts are beginning to respect the decisions of the Cypriot Courts a little more!

.... The final decision:



Cousins lose Cyprus manslaughter extradition battle

Cousins Luke Atkinson and Michael Binnington have lost their High Court battle against extradition to Cyprus where they face three-year jail sentences for the manslaughter of a Cypriot teenager.

Published: 11:36AM BST 17 Jun 2009

(L-R) Michael Binnington and Luke Atkinson have lost their High Court battle against extradition to Cyprus where they face three-year jail sentences for the manslaughter of Christos Papiris

The pair, both 24, from Witham, Essex, were originally cleared of blame for the death of Christos Papiris, 17, in a road crash but later convicted in their absence.

On Wednesday Lord Justice Maurice Kay and Mr Justice Collins, sitting in London, ruled it was impossible to say the Cypriot trial process as a whole had been flawed and violated their right to a fair trial.

Larnaca Assize Court acquitted them of involvement in the death of Christos and causing serious injury to another on the moped, but in January 2008 the Supreme Court of Cyprus found them guilty.

The court ruled evidence showed the pair had "undoubtedly encouraged" Harrington to pursue the moped to take revenge after a fight outside a nightclub.

They were sentenced to three years in a Cypriot jail for culpable manslaughter and one year for grievous bodily harm, the sentences to run concurrently.

Refusing to block extradition, Mr Justice Collins said: "It is in the circumstances quite impossible to say that they were prejudiced or that the trial process as a whole failed to comply with Article 6 (of the European Convention on Human Rights).

"They were involved in a course of conduct which led to the death of one and serious injury to another wholly innocent young man."

Harrington, also from Witham, is serving a 15-year jail sentence after admitting manslaughter and causing grievous bodily harm.

Atkinson and Binnington said they were only involved "unwittingly" in the death as back seat passengers in a highly drunken state.

The extradition of both men was ordered by District Judge Quentin Purdy at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court in January after European Arrest Warrants were issued against them.

At London's High Court their QC, Alun Jones, said they had been denied a proper opportunity to defend themselves in Cyprus.

He argued Judge Purdy had erred when he ruled that the pair "deliberately absented themselves from their trial" before the Supreme Court.

Mr Jones said the Supreme Court hearing was effectively an appeal - not a trial.

He said: "It did not have the quality of a trial or a re-hearing and cannot properly be said to be a trial."

The QC argued that jailing the cousins without a proper re-hearing amounted to a breach of their human rights

But the judges rejected all his submissions and upheld the decision to extradite.

Source: Telegraph

I hope they get to share a cell with the biggest homosexual this country has to offer.

When you say biggest I hope you mean height and weight and not campest.

[CBBB]

Homosexuality in Cyprus has a slightly different definition to the UK. From what I am told, "giving" it is OK, "receiving" it means you are queer! Personally, I have no experience of this situation.

[Floda]

Homosexuality in Cyprus has a slightly different definition to the UK. From what I am told, "giving" it is OK, "receiving" it means you are queer! Personally, I have no experience of this situation.

CBBB, one usually gains experience by confronting that which one does not fully understand.

You seem to have indicated a situation where one may only gain experience by turning one's back on the subject.

[Twilight]

My sympathy is with all the family of the young teenager's life which was ended too soon ..... whatever his nationality .. and 15yrs in my opinion is not long enough ... and 3 yrs is a joke , all should return to a lengthy jail sentences ....