Ungrateful guest:Aporter was murdered in his flat in el-Mataria by an unemployed man. The jobless visitor strangled his host with the wire from his satellite dish, then fled with his victim's mobile phone. But he was caught before travelling to his native el-Qanater. The body of 35-year-old Yasser Abdel- Moneim was found the following day by his brother, who'd gone round to check up on him; the deceased had been bound hand and foot before being strangled. Yasser, who worked as a porter nearby Midan el-Mataria, lived on his own in a small room on the roof of a building where his brothers and sisters also live. He'd invited round his killer to have dinner with him. Tajikistanis tricked: In the latest kidnapping incident, a woman made off with the baby boy of a Muslim couple from Tajikistan. The fully veiled kidnapper went to visit them in their home and claimed that she'd been sent by a charitable organisation that cares for foreigners studying at Al-Azhar University. She further claimed that their baby's name had been pulled out of the hat in a draw organised by the organisation, which meant his parents had won a laptop. Sheasked the mother to accompany her with the three-month-old baby, Mohanad, to the organisation's office, in order to pick up their prize. On the way, she grabbed the little fellow from his mother and escaped with him in a taxi. Forty-eight hours later, baby and kidnapper were found, having spent the intervening time in a cheap hotel in el-Darb el-Ahmar in Islamic Cairo and el-Gomhuria Hospital. It was the baby's parents, both Tajikistanis – Amir Hamza (29), a student in the Faculty of Religious Sciences at Al-Azhar University, and his wife, a fully veiled lady called Kalifoun Brafa (also 29) – who reported what had happened to the police. The name of the kidnapper was given as Soheir Othman (30), who lives in Nasr City's Tenth District and doesn't usually wear the niqab, only the hijab. Detectives went round to her home to arrest her, but only her husband, a 28-year-old fruit seller called Mohamed Maher was in. Mohamed told them that his wife had gone to el-Demerdash General Hospital to give birth to their first child, a boy. Officers went to the hospital, but there was no trace of mother or son. Then police in Heliopolis received information that Soheir was staying in the third-floor hotel in el-Darb el-Ahmar. They contacted the manager of the hotel, who confirmed this. He said that she was accompanied by a baby boy and a little girl of two (one of her children by her first husband). However, they'd stayed the night and then left to go to a hospital, as Soheir's daughter was unwell. She was arrested in el-Gomhuria Hospital. Soheir, who had two daughters by her first husband, divorced him and then married Mohamed. Anxious to bear him a son, she pretended she was pregnant with a boy and decided to steal one and tell her husband that he was theirs. The whole thing was a clever scheme. Little Mohanad is back with his relieved mum and dad.
