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Taken from the Cyprus Mail today

Briton in house dispute takes protest to London
By Jean Christou

A BRITISH home buyer whose case in Cyprus has been dragging on for two years without being resolved will camp outside the Cyprus High Commission in London indefinitely, he said yesterday.

Conor O` Dwyer, 38, whose case has been well publicised over the past year has written a letter to President Demetris Christofias asking for justice and intends to begin his indefinite protest “Sleeping Rough for Justice” on August 3.

He said August marked two years since he was to move his family to Cyprus, and August marked the anniversary of when the Minister of the Interior told the media he was looking into the unlawful selling of O’ Dwyer’s house. “So far no investigation has taken place and no arrests have been made,” he said

O’Dwyer said staging an indefinite protest outside the High Commission was all that was left for him to do since the legal system in Cyprus has let him down so badly.

“This battle has totally taken over my life,” he told the Sunday Mail. “If the authorities had done two per cent of the work I did on my case, it would all be over.”

Every detail of O’ Dwyer’s case has been outlined on his website www.lyingbuilder.com and he has now set up a new site www.ShameOnCyprus.com which will focus initially on his protest in London. He will also post daily bulletins on YouTube.

“I will be there 24 hours a day, seven days a week until I get justice,” he said. “Viewers will be kept up to date with my progress. I will offer expats and Cypriots alike the opportunity to have their plight registered on my website where I hope to highlight a different case against the property industry in Cyprus every day. It is time that the British public is made aware of the pitfalls of buying property before setting foot in Cyprus.”

The British ex soldier spent a week in Larnaca hospital last January after he was beaten up in Frenaros when he went to take pictures of the house he had bought and over which he later came into dispute with the developers.

He says they unilaterally cancelled his contract and kept his money, some £75,000 sterling because he had pulled them up over what he saw as a violation of the terms of the contract. The case is pending at court. The developers have accused O’ Dwyer of allegedly masterminding a plan to extort a newer more expensive property, and exorbitant damages from the company.

They have however been charged by police in connection with the attack on O’Dwyer in Frenaros but the case has yet to reach the courts.

“I have been assaulted twice by my developers; both incidents were captured on camera. The evidence from the first assault in 2006 has still not been presented in court. Lack of legal action gave the developers free licence to assault me more aggressively in January 2008, where I was hospitalised for six days,” said O’ Dwyer in his letter to Christofias.

He said two weeks later a bar-brawl involving nine British soldiers took place in Ayia Napa. “That case investigated by the same CID branch has already come to court,” he added.

“The nine accused have not been allowed home whereas my developer’s actions are condoned by the industry bodies and estate agents who still have them on their books. I have had no confirmation of an indictment let alone a court date for any of my cases going back over two years.”

He said his was a “slam dunk” case and there was no good reason why it had not yet reached the courts.

“In Cyprus not only does my developer continue without penalty but also no action has been taken against the lawyers who unlawfully sold my house or the lawyer who once represented me and then went on to represent the opposition,” O’ Dwyer said in the letter to the President.

“I will also broadcast onto the internet the recordings of the way I was treated by your police officers who refused to charge the perpetrators according to the law… the Police force and prosecutors in Famagusta are corrupt and racist. My lawyer has had all pleas for justice and an investigation ignored.”

Copyright © Cyprus Mail 2008

[Scottishchick]

Very interesting reading Lorraine.....