Our View: Who can we now trust to investigate soldier’s murder?

After 19 years of investigations by police, forensic pathologists and lawyers, three death inquiries, applications to the Cyprus supreme court and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), a judge ruled that the death of national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou, in September 2005 was not the result of suicide.

It is shocking that it took so long for the authorities to arrive at the correct conclusion, which would never have happened had it not been for the tenacious persistence of the young man’s mother...