A Cypriot army officer who has allegedly confessed to killing seven foreign women and girls over nearly three years appeared in court Sunday, while police said they had recovered a fifth body.
Captain 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”.
Police told reporters on Sunday that they had retrieved a suitcase containing the remains of a human body at an acidic manmade lake southwest of Nicosia — the second such find in eight days.
The body found on Sunday at the lake near the village of Mitsero is in an “advanced state of decomposition”, police spokesman Andreas Angelides said.
He said a post-mortem would be carried out but did not say whether the body was that of an adult or a child.
Cypriot newspaper Phileleftheros reported that the body found on Sunday was that of a child.
Metaxas has allegedly confessed to the murder of five women, alongside daughters of two of the women — a six-year-old Filipina and a Romanian girl.
The killings came to light in mid-April when unusually heavy rains brought the body…
