Wednesday, November 12, 2025 - Police have arrested five suspects in connection with the premeditated m8rder of a 30-year-old Nigerian woman, Victory Osarumen Thompson, in Limassol, Cyprus.
Thompson was found d3ad in her Germasogeia flat on Sunday,
November 9, 2025.
Assistant Police Director Lefteris Kyriakou said the police
received a call from the ambulance service around 10:30 a.m, reporting the
woman’s d3ath.
The victim suffered injuries consistent with being brutally
beaten with a broomstick, investigators told the Limassol District Court
earlier this week.
Three female suspects, believed to be Nigerian nationals,
were appeared at the scene. They appeared in court on Monday, November 10,
where they were detained for eight days on suspicion of premeditated m8rder and
conspiracy to commit a felony.
Two additional persons, a couple from Nigeria, were arrested
on Tuesday, November 11.
The suspects, aged 30 and 31, who were allegedly present
during the incident, used force against the victim, and allegedly fled the
scene taking the victim’s mobile phone.
The newly arrested pair were detained separately—the man in
Nicosia and the woman in Limassol—and are expected to appear before the
Limassol District Court later today for a remand hearing.
Police say new witness statements are reinforcing suspicions
that the k!lling was premeditated.
According to reports, neighbors heard loud arguments in the
hours before the woman’s d3ath, details that match what forensic experts found
at the scene.
Police confirmed the suspects are asylum seekers, with one
application already rejected and the others still pending.
During the on-site autopsy, investigators discovered multiple
signs of physical abuse, prompting authorities to immediately treat the case as
a homicide. Evidence collected from the scene is now being analyzed to help
determine the motive and exact circumstances surrounding Thompson’s
d3ath.
According to the suspects’ statements to police, the victim
was in an “out of control” state—potentially due to drug use—when they returned
to the flat around 05:00.
They claimed the victim
started attacking them and they used force to restrain her, resulting in her
fatal injury.
The second female suspect
admitted in a written statement to police that she took a broomstick and hit
the victim, even after she had fallen.
A large number of items
were collected as evidence, including the broken broomstick, all of which were
sent for forensic examination.
The CID continues to take
statements as part of the ongoing investigation.
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