Teenage footballer drowns in Ayia Napa swimming pool 'littered with condoms, syringes and cigarette butts'

A British teenager has drowned after falling into a hotel swimming pool while on holiday in the Cypriot party town of Ayia Napa.
Savvakis Alexandros Georgiou - who had signed for League Two football club Stevenage FC - had been partying with pals and is believed to have slipped and fell into the pool at the resort's Kalypso Hotel.
Despite there being more than 20 people in the swimming pool, it has been claimed nobody spotted that the 18-year-old was in trouble until a female swimmer tripped over his body at the bottom of the pool.
It is believed he was under water for between five and 20 minutes with his family claiming that nobody spotted him because the pool was covered in algae and littered with rubbish, including syringes, condoms and cigarette butts.
Several people tried to revive the teen, but he was pronounced dead at Famagusta Hospital with a post mortem confirming that he had drowned in the early hours of August 18.
The teen, from Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, had travelled to Ayia Napa with his cousin on August 17 after visiting his grandparents for four days in nearby Protaras, just five miles away from the party district of Ayia Napa.
The teen had initially booked into the Fedra hotel on August 14, but was told there had been a booking mistake and he was told he would have to stay in its sister hotel, The Kalypso.
Speaking this week, the teen's aunt Angela Soteriou, 39, claimed an independent forensic coroner had said the swimming pool was 'murky and littered with rubbish'.

This picture shows the pool at the Kalypso Hotel

She added: "It is just so devastating. It's a tragedy. He was an athletic, bright and intelligent boy.
"He was an inspiration and so full of life and mischief. He was just so special, so loving. He had a good heart. If you asked him anything at all he would do it for you.
"He shouldn't be gone, he should be here. He had his whole life ahead of him. It's a tragic, tragic loss."
A statement put out from his family said: "On behalf of Savvakis Alexandros Georgiou, parents Elbida and George Georgiou.
"I would like to make everyone (mothers fathers brothers sisters etc) aware of the tragic death of their 18 year old son, Savvakis Alexandros Georgiou, who lost his life on Monday 18th August 2014 between the hours of 7:00-8:00am leaving behind his brothers Andronico and Stefano."
The statement went on to claim that Savvakis lost consciousness after he allegedly slipped into the "algae ridden swimming pool which was filled with syringes, condoms and cigarette butts".
The family claimed this resulted in his body not being visible for approximately 20 minutes.
An investigation has been launched into the death and the owners of the hotel, a father and son aged 63 and 33, have been arrested on suspicion of not holding the proper hotel and pool permits.
They have been released without charge as the investigation continues.