Suspected prison guard arsonist remanded

The prison guard who was arrested on suspicion of arson was remanded for eight days on Tuesday.

The 47-year-old man was brought before the Nicosia district court and accused of a total of three arson attacks – the one which he carried out in the early hours of Monday morning, another arson attack on a car, and a suspected arson attack on a children’s play park.

The case’s investigator said in court that a “pattern of action” had emerged in all three cases. The man, he said, had gone...