Suicide attempt signalled ‘immediate danger’, court told

Court proceedings into the suicide of 14-year-old Stylianos Constantinou continued on Friday with the cross examination of criminal investigator Andreas Andreou, who said that when a child attempts to end his life, this alone is “an indication of immediate danger” and should not be handled with standard criteria.

Stylianos took his own life in September 2019. Evidence heard in previous proceedings showed he had been living in a household where multiple incidents of domestic violence had been...