Takis Sofokleous graduated from Xerou primary school. He was studying in the third grade of the Paphos Gymnasium, when the British arrested him for disorderly conduct. He was released but later arrested again, when he threw a bomb outside the “Paphos Palace” hotel, where English police officers were staying. He was detained for nine days in the Paphos interrogation room, and from there he was transferred to the hospital in Ktima, because he was in terrible pain from the abuse. 

He escaped through a window of the hospital and the police who chased him lost track of him when he hid in a barrel filled with water in a house next to his school, and covered himself with the barrel’s cover. After the police chasing him left, Takis went to his school, where he changed clothes and was then taken by his classmate to his team leader in the Kato Perivolia area of the Estate. His team leader led him to the hero Christos Kelis in the village of Kissonerga.

Later he joined the rebel group of the Paphos mountain area, which had its hideout in the “Toxeutra” area. Because of his very young age, the group’s caterer kept him at his parents’ home, but he participated in group activities.

On January 23, 1957, he set up an ambush with two other rebels and hit a military car that was passing outside the village of Kritou Tera. Because they were informed by a Turkish resident of the village of Arodes that another Turk from Paphos was watching them and betraying their movements to the English, they executed the traitor and were forced to leave their area and head towards the village of Skoulli.

On February 7, 1957, Takis Sofokleous and Georgios Papaverkiou set up an ambush at the location of Ampelakia in the village of Prodromi, at a distance of only 15 minutes from the camp of Limni, where 2 thousand English soldiers were staying. They planted a mine to blow up a phalanx of British cars and waited armed with automatic weapons. A battle ensued in which five soldiers were killed and seven others wounded. The two heroes were fired upon by the soldiers of another following vehicle and both were killed.