Man who stole a truck in south Cyprus and drove it to north Cyprus said he was ‘too drunk to remember’ stealing a truck

A Turkish man who was arrested and taken to court for stealing a lorry in south Cyprus and driving it to the north told the court that he was “too drunk to be able to remember” what happened.

The accused, İ.A. is said to have illegally crossed from the village of Lurucina (Akıncılar) in north Cyprus to south Cyprus, took a company's truck in south Cyprus and drove it to the north on Sunday, Dec., 31.

Police officer who testified in court, said the man had driven south out of the village of Louroujina and into south Cyprus. From there, he managed to take a lorry and a trailer belonging to a business in south Cyprus and drive it back to the north via Louroujina.

Turkish Cypriot police later found the lorry parked on a ring road in Hamitköy, north of the village of Ağıllar. 

Police said they found a shoe print in the lorry identical to one found in the suspect’s house.

He added that two batteries and a tape recorder had been stolen from the lorry.

“I was too drunk to be able to remember what happened, I do not remember anything,” the suspect said in court.

Police told the court that the man had undergone a medical check at the Lefkcosia’s Dr Burhan Nalbantoglu hospital, and that he would also undergo testing at the Baris Mental and Neurological Diseases hospital.

The judge ordered that the man be detained in custody for eight days.