A shame and an injustice to not be able attend his children’s funeral

The British bases’ refusal to find a way to let a father, facing charges, attend the funeral of his children, found dead in a vehicle in Xylofagou, puts the spotlight back on the serious problems that crop up whenever judicial proceedings take place there. A week after a Cypriot court rightly approved a 37-year-old’s request to travel to Britain for his child’s funeral, the British bases’ court turned down a 30-year-old’s request to attend the funeral of his two children in Bulgaria.

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