Blasted barber: An unemployed man in Tema, Sohag Governorate shot a barber; the pair had fallen out over money. The 28-year-old victim, Farid Saber, who lived in el-Salam district, died of his injuries in Tema Central Hospital. His killer was named as Sayyed Abdel-Aziz, a 38-year-old ex-convict. Sayyed had lent money to Farid, who didn't pay him back. He went round to the barber's house and blasted him with his gun, before running off. He was soon arrested. Killed by her grandson: A young man who was short of money stabbed to death his grandmother in Dar el-Salam, then tried to rob her. He attacked on the landing outside her flat. She put up a terrific struggle and her grandson fled emptyhanded. However, the neighbours spotted him running off. His grandmother managed to struggle downstairs and into the street, where she collapsed. She was taken to Qasr Al-Aini Hospital, but died on the way of her injuries, while her killer was found hiding out at his friend's house. He admitted the premeditated murder of his grandma, in order to rob her. Another motive was that her teenage grandson was angry with her because she was always complaining that he couldn't find a job. Zeinab Mohamed (74) lived in a flat on the second floor and her 19-year-old grandson lived with his family on the floor above. Other members of the family live in the same building. As he knifed her, Zeinab started screaming and it was this that alerted the neighbours. Poor Nancy's story: It was the terrible smell that alerted the neighbours to the fact that something was not right in the flat of a mentally disturbed woman. They called the police who broke in and found her baby boy dead on the bed. In fact, he'd been dead for five days and his poor mother was lying next to him. The boy's mother, who'd spent some time in a psychiatric hospital, became pregnant when some men raped her. A painter and decorator then took pity on her and married her. The boy died in his mother's flat in Port Said Street, el- Sayyeda Zeinab. Because of her psychological frailty, she wasn't capable of looking after the newborn on her own. Nancy (25), whose son was only six weeks old, has been referred to a psychiatric hospital again. She didn't even realise she was pregnant until the baby was born last month. The painter then married her and registered the lad's birth in his name, but he wasn't living in the flat when his little stepson died. The boy's mother had rung her sister and asked her to come and look after the boy, but she said she wouldn't be available to help for another week. She'd moved into the flat on her own, because her brothers and sisters kicked her out after she'd been raped. It was different when Nancy's parents were alive, because they knew how to look after her. It appears that Nancy really loved the little boy and only accused detectives of killing him (although he died five days before they broke in), because she was so confused and distressed. Let's hope this woman who's suffered so much can find some security and peace of mind in hospital.
