A Pakistani student and his Chinese flatmate were jailed for life by a Cyprus court on Friday after being found guilty of the brutal murder of a Cypriot building contractor. Pakistani student Zeeshan Asghar Muhammad, 22, and Yu Hong Bo, 29, were found guilty of premeditated murder and conspiracy to murder Pavlos Christodoulou who was clubbed to death and his body incinerated in July 2004.
The victims Cypriot wife, Magda Eleftheriou, 33, was found guilty of manslaughter and will be sentenced next week.
Muhammad and bank employee Eleftheriou were having an affair and reportedly wanted to eliminate the husband. The Pakistani admitted to killing his lover's husband but said it was in self-defence. The mother-of-two has always maintained that she had no idea about a plot to kill her husband of 15 years and denied she had set a trap by arranging the time and place where he would meet his death.
The fact a cold-blooded murder of a family man involved the victim's wife shocked public opinion in one of the highest-profile criminal cases the island has witnessed.
The 38-year-old's battered body was wrapped in blankets, dumped in the boot of his own car while the killers drove around the capital looking for a quiet spot to incinerate the evidence. His charred body was discovered the next morning after the burnt shell of his vehicle was found in an open field. Relatives could only identify him from some of his personal belongings.
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