Cyprus serial killer gets seven consecutive life sentences for murder of 7 people

Cyprus serial killer who killed seven people including five women and two children has been sentenced to seven lifetime imprisonment by a Nicosia court on Monday after pleading guilty to all charges of murder brought against him.

Five of the life sentences are consecutive. Two of which concern the murders of the children with their mothers will win concurrently.

Metaxas earlier on Monday pleaded guilty in court for the murder of Livia Fiorentina Bunea, 36, and her eight year old daughter Elena Natalya, Maricar Valdez Arquiola, 29, Mary Rose Tibiurco, 38,  and her six year old daughter Sierra Granze,  Asmita Kahta Mista 30, and Arian Palanas, 28.

Serial killer Nicos Metaxas, 35, was charged with premeditated murder and abduction of five women and two girls – who came from the Philippines, Romania and Nepal – between September, 2016 and July 2018. 

The two children, aged six and eight, were daughters of two of the women.

Metaxas was taken to a courthouse in Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus on Monday under heavy security wearing a bullet-proof vest, and appeared without a lawyer.

He broke down in tears as police read the indictment against him, report Cyprus Mail.

I have committed abhorrent crimes, he said, expressing condolences to the families of the victims.

Police say the accused met the women online. The victims were mostly employed as housekeepers on the island and disappeared between September 2016 and August 2018.

The police chief was sacked and the justice minister resigned following accounts of bungled investigations by police who did not take the disappearances seriously because the women were foreign.

The first victim was found dead by tourists shooting pictures at a mining shaft in late April, unravelling the macabre killing spree. The last victim discovered, the six-year-old child, was found in a lake on July 12.

Edited from Cyprus Mail.