A disastrous career change: A lady in her forties, who has 19 previous convictions for immorality, drug dealing and failing to honour IOUs, has just got herself into trouble again. It all started when she got chatting to a microbus driver who gave her a lift home. They kept in touch after that first meeting and soon got married. They'd been married for some time when they ran into financial problems and the lady hit on an idea to bail them out. She asked a girlfriend if they could use the latter's flat in 6th of October City for prostitution. The idea was for the two women to sell their bodies, while the first woman's husband would act as their pimp, procuring them clients. Her friend and her husband agreed and soon they were in business. The husband would find clients in the bars and cabarets of downtown Cairo then drive them to 6th of October City for late-night entertainment. The Vice Squad soon got wind of what was going on and raided the flat. They arrested the two women and the first woman's husband, who was hiding under the bed where the ladies offered their clients their services. It was also discovered that the husband, who made some extra money selling their customers sexual stimulants, had secretly divorced his wife. His unnamed ex-wife said that she'd first gone astray as a young woman, because her family had been unkind to her. She'd left home and rented a flat on her own. Then another woman had shown her how to make lots of easy money and they'd gone into business together. It was this same friend that she again went into business with in 6th of October City, many years later. Her husband regrets his career change. “I had a steady job as a driver and it paid enough. [So why were the couple in need of money?]. I wish I'd never taken up pimping. I'm going to go straight when I'm released from prison,” he told detectives. Death sentences:
In Giza Governorate, two young tok-tok drivers have been sentenced to death for killing another tok-tok driver. One day, the condemned, Amr Salah, 18, and Abdullah Ali, 21, went to el-Talbia with the intention of stealing a tok-tok from its driver. They flagged down one of these vehicles, being driven by Amer Hassaan, a 20-year-old law student, and asked him to take them to el-Mahoulat. On the way, they stopped to answer a call of nature. Amr then hit Amer on the head with a rock, while Abdullah slit his throat. They then strangled him to make sure he was dead and dumped his body in the fields. In a similar case, el-Zaqaziq Criminal Court in el-Sharqia Governorate has sentenced two brothers to death, having found them guilty of murdering a teenage tok-tok driver called Islam el-Enani. The condemned, Waleed and Ismail Mohamed (aged 20 and 19 respectively), both mechanics and from the village of Meet Zafir near el-Zaqaziq, killed Islam el-Enani (also 19) from the village of el-Awasiga near Hahia. Islam, who was reported missing from home, had given the two brothers a lift. On the way to their destination, they decided to rob him and they killed him when he put up a fight, dumping his body in Lake Moweis.
