Cyprus army officer appears in court in country's first serial killing case

Cpt Nicos Metaxas, 35, has not yet been formally charged over the murders - dubbed the Mediterranean island's"first serial killings", which have unleashed anger against what the president described as police"negligence".

At the hearing on Sunday the suspect - first arrested on April 18 - was remanded in custody for a further eight days. Neophytos Shailos, head of Nicosia's Criminal Investigation Department , told the Nicosia district court a Flipina woman, 19, came forward to file a complaint that Metaxas raped her.Shailos testified that the young woman said she made contact with the army officer online in 2016 when she replied to a modelling job for a photoshoot.

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