Decapitation in the Delta: A young man in el-Mahalla el-Kobra in the Delta Governorate of el-Gharbia used a scythe to kill his elder sister as they argued over the family inheritance. The suspect, a worker, has been arrested. Mohamed Abdel-Moneim (28) decapitated his sister, Saada. They'd fallen out over a piece of agricultural land left to them by their late father. It was in Saada's home that the suspect beheaded her. Injustice is a sin, papa: The grief-stricken parents of a girl called Menatallah cannot come to terms with her death. It was when Menatallah, one of the best pupils in her school, was violently robbed that her life fell apart, eventually leading to her jumping to her death from her family's fifth-floor flat in el-Beheira Governorate. On August 12 last year, Nehru Khalil, a 46-year-old driver, gave his daughter, Menatallah, LE100 and transport money to go and buy some school textbooks in Rashid. Unfortunately, when she got there, the shop didn't have the books in stock, so Menatallah got a shared taxi home from the bus station. There were only the driver, herself and another passenger, a man, in the car. En route, the passenger told her to give him her handbag. When she refused, he started punching her and then stabbed her in the left hand. The driver, obviously well acquainted with the knifeman, began arguing with him for stabbing Menatallah, who managed to jump out of the taxi. She walked to the home of her grandmother, who took her to the doctor's to have her hand seen to. Grandma then took her home to her parents. Nehru was reluctant to go to the police, but his brother, Essam, a lawyer, insisted that he should. Nehru took his daughter to the police station and they filed a complaint. The knifeman and the driver, paternal cousins, were soon arrested. Essam, Menatallah's uncle, says that, while they were discussing the case at the station, another lawyer and a police officer came to blows. “I tried to break it up and then the officer accused me of taking sides with the lawyer. The officer decided to get his revenge by changing some of the details in the report about my niece,” so Essam claims, adding that he then filed a complaint against the police. According to Nehru, the families of the two suspects and some detectives started claiming that his daughter was psychologically disturbed. The suspects then filed for compensation against Menatallah, alleging that she'd made up the whole story about the aggravated robbery. For a quite, sensitive teenage girl, this was all too much, especially when she read all the reports containing all the accusations and counteraccusations that her father had inadvertently left on the table in the living room. On the day she died, Menatallah told her father that it was sinful to live in a world where people are denied their rights. Her father kissed her goodbye and went off to work. A couple of hours later, one of hisneighbours rang to say that his daughter had fallen from their balcony. Nehru rushed to her bedside in hospital. She was still alive, but thelife was ebbing out of her. “Injustice is a sin, papa,” she said, as he and his wife, Menatallah's mother Jehan Abdel-Fattah, watched her breathe her last.
