A Cypriot army officer who has allegedly confessed to killing seven foreign women and girls appeared in court Sunday.
Cpt 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".
At the hearing on Sunday the suspect - first arrested on April 18 - was remanded in custody for a further eight days. Neophytos Shailos, head of Nicosia's Criminal Investigation Department , told the Nicosia district court a Flipina woman, 19, came forward to file a complaint that Metaxas raped her.Shailos testified that the young woman said she made contact with the army officer online in 2016 when she replied to a modelling job for a photoshoot.
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