Man threatens to burn his mother in north Cyprus

A Turkish Cypriot man was on Thursday taken to a court in Lefkosia for threatening to incinerate his own 79-year-old mother.

The incident happened on Tuesday, March, 26 when the man named only as BS burnt a hole in a tarpaulin sheet on the edge of his mother’s garden with a cigarette.

The man then apparently shouted, “I will strangle you! If you report me to the police, I will pour petrol in your house and light it with you inside!”

He was arrested after the incident.

The man had been arrested for disturbing his neighbours in January and had threatened his mother with violence a week later before being sentenced to a month in prison on February 2, police to the court.

He was released from this sentence on March 4 as the latest incident has happened only a little over three weeks later.

The man himself said in court that his mother is actually 80 years old and that she was “making things up”.

The judge ordered this time that he be sent to prison for a period not exceeding 45 days.