That December day…

Reading that 79-year-old British retiree and former coal miner, David Hunter, died in a hospital in Paphos last Wednesday brought back a fleeting memory of our conversation on the 21st of July, 2023, outside the courtroom of the Paphos Criminal Court. Minutes earlier, he had heard the two-year prison sentence handed down for the crime of murder.

“I feel happy, because I can finally go to my wife’s grave in Tremithousa and mourn her properly,” he told me, the relief in his voice unmistakable...