Handwriting expert called in to usurpation trial

A handwriting expert testifying in a criminal trial on Monday stated categorically that the defendant – a German woman facing charges of fraudulently transacting in real estate – did not fill out the entire consent form authorising police to search her belongings.

Marios Markides, a witness summoned by the defence, was testifying in the ‘trial within a trial’ of Ewa Isabella Kunzel, a real estate agent accused of the ‘usurpation’ of Greek Cypriot properties in the north of the island.