A Limassol court has ordered a 41-year-old woman remanded in custody until mid-May after rejecting her lawyers’ application for bail on a charge of attempted murder of her seven-year-old son.
The woman faces a single charge: the attempted murder of her child on February 10, 2026, allegedly by administering sedative pills to him. The offence carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, the court noted in its ruling.
Her lawyers had sought bail with conditions to secure her attendance at trial, arguing against continued detention. The prosecution opposed the application on the grounds that the defendant has no ties to the Republic of Cyprus and poses a flight risk.
The judge heard both sides before reserving judgment, and yesterday rejected the bail application and ordered her remanded until the Criminal Court hearing, set for mid-May. Witnesses in the case include the woman’s husband, treating physicians and the seven-year-old boy himself.
The case was committed to the Permanent Criminal Court of Limassol last Friday.
The defendant had been hospitalised at Athalassa Hospital following the incident and was discharged after receiving treatment, with doctors determining she was fit to stand trial.
Background
On the evening of February 10, the woman’s husband returned home to find his wife and son unconscious in the child’s bedroom. Initially believing the boy was asleep, he took his wife to a private hospital when he realised she was unwell.
Returning home, he found the child in the same condition. In his statement, the father said he found three empty blister packs of sedative pills in a household bin.
In a video-recorded statement, the child said he went to hospital because he nearly died from expired pills, which his mother gave him believing they would help him.
He said he was not ill and did not want to take them, but his mother gave them to him and he swallowed them with water. He said he did not know how many pills he took.
He recalled being in bed trying to sleep when his mother came and gave him the pills, telling him she had also taken some because she had a headache.