Police on Crete arrest 5 for kidnapping of UK-based professor

Police in Rethymno on Wednesday reported a further five arrests in connection with the abduction on the island of Crete of a 50-year-old lecturer from Manchester University in England. The five, all residents of Iraklio, have been charged as accomplices in the kidnapping.
They include two Greek women aged 32 and 60 years, respectively, and three Greek men aged 37, 41 and 43 years old. According to police, all five participated in the preparation and execution of the kidnapping. They will now be led before a public prosecutor in Lasithi prefecture.
The kidnapping was planned and carried out by the brother of 20-year-old student Aggeliki Stavroulaki from Asi Gonia in Hania. The young student has been missing since she left home on Feb.18 this year and her brother kidnapped the 50-year-old lecturer in the belief that he knew of her whereabouts because of the friendship between them.
Stavroulakis turned himself in to police on Tuesday and admitted to the kidnapping. The unnamed academic had been on holiday in the region when he was abducted last Thursday. The victim has been found but police say he has suffered both physical and mental abuse.
(source: ana-mpa)