Monday night (17th) I watched Cyprus News with Hercules and Eleni (their guest). There was an account of a gruesome butcher-shop murder in Nicosia. The victim (a 70-some-year-old butcher) was stabbed over 30 times and hidden in one of his walk-in refrigerators. The area outside the fridge was cleaned up, and when they found him, he was still (barely) alive, but died on the way to the hospital.
This murder had happened that morning. The murderer, they believed, was a 27-year-old Pakistani man who was seen leaving the shop that morning. The general hospital reported that they had treated wounds on his hands sometime later that morning, making him a prime suspect in the stabbing.
As we watched the news Anna and I looked at each other. Around noon we had been riding the Nicosia bus to the general hospital, where she was getting a TB test read. On the bus both of us had noticed a 20-something Pakistani man with his hand wrapped in an Ace bandage. "We saw that guy!" we both exclaimed.
Reader, judge for yourself. It's quite possible that we were riding the bus with a wanted man. On the other hand, maybe more than one young Pakistani had an injured hand on Monday... Let your imagination decide.
We were just riding the bus.
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