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| Courtesy KıbrısOnAir |
Typical North Cyprus arrest story. Well, not entirely typical, because the person arrested in this case is a teacher who stole the money she had been collecting from students for gym fees. That has to be unusual in any venue. Because it’s wrong, because most teachers care about their students, and also, of course, because the odds of getting away with it must have been non-existent.
Not unusual to show photographs of the arrest. Face obscured to protect the guilty. As in other jurisdictions it seems to be important to report the perpetrator’s age and not only when he or she seems to be unusually old or young to have committed the crime - as in car theft by a nine year old or ninety-nine year old.
What is unusual, although standard operating procedure here, is to provide the initials of the accused. In this case “a 37-year-old teacher, identified by her initials E.S.” Presumably everybody in the relevant Nicosia school - and their friends and relations - already know her name and much more. It hides her identity only from the likes of us who are far removed from the situation.
Is interesting to know that “the suspect had 7,280 Turkish Lira in her possession, which was taken as evidence”. Not an enormous sum ($241.71 CAD, £131.56) and considerably less than the 25,000 lira she is said to have stolen from the students. But how on earth would it constitute evidence? Had the students marked the notes before handing them in? Endless speculation.
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