Indecent on the Internet: A farmer stabbed his wife to death in the village of Gomhour near Fashn in Beni Sueif Governorate, when he discovered photos and a video clip of her on an Internet website. The victim was named as Saeeda Gaber. It was when her husband, Saeed Abdel- Hakim (43), got back from working in Libya that his relatives told him about the indecent photos and the sultry video clip featuring his late 38-year-old wife. Married to a jailer: Lamia (27) was very disappointed when the husband she loved became suspicious of her every move. She got so fed up that went to the disputes settlement office attached to Alexandria Family Court to ask for a khula divorce from Sayyed (32), a civil servant. They'd been married for four years and had a little girl. It was shortly after they got married that Lamia discovered a suspicious side to her husband, who even on one occasion imprisoned her in their home. She wanted him to divorce her but he refused, so she went to the Family Court, which is still considering the case. Forgive me father: In the village of el- Ahzaar near Shebeen el-Qanater, el- Qaliubia Governorate, a teenager in the last year of commercial school hanged himself as the cannon went off for iftar, because his father refused to help him marry his sweetheart. The body of the victim was found in a building under construction, owned by his father, swinging from a winch. On the floor nearby, 18-year-old Abdel-Khaleq Abdel- Basset had left a farewell note which simply read: “Forgive me father for hanging myself because you refused to help me marry the girl I loved.” Abdel-Khaleq had fallen in love with a girl from the same village and wanted to get engaged to her, but his father told him to wait until his elder brother got married first. This made his son very depressed, so he decided to end it all. You can't really blame the father, as it is the normal practice in Egypt for the eldest son to get married first. Of course, that's not always the case with daughters. If a rich, impatient suitor asks for a younger daughter's hand in marriage, he's sure to let her marry him, even if her elder sister is still unattached. Was it suicide? Meanwhile, it was marriage itself that drove a middle-aged civil servant committed suicide (if indeed it was suicide) in el-Daqahlia Governorate, because of the constant arguments with his wife. It was in Ezbet el-Shaal near el-Mansoura that the 45- year-old civil servant, Elwi Sultan, decided to end it all; he and his wife kept constantly arguing over money. His death was reported by his widow's brother, who found him lying outside the entrance to their home with stab wounds to his chest. Elwi's 43-year-old widow, Amal Masbah, said her late husband always got angry with her and insulted her, whenever she asked him for money for the household expenses. However, Elwi's brothers, workers called Mohamed (48) and Gouda (47), told police that they suspected that their late brother's widow, her father and her brother wanted to kill him, and that the brother fatally knifed him.
