Bail hearing for father accused over children’s deaths adjourned until Friday

A hearing on a bail application by the father accused of causing the deaths of his two young children after they were left inside a vehicle in the village of Xylophagou was adjourned on Thursday and will resume on Friday morning, after the defence asked the British bases court to allow him to travel to Bulgaria for the children’s funeral and to release him pending trial.

Defence lawyer Christos Theodoulou told the court that the application had two principal aims; firstly, to allow his client...