Suffocated by students: An middle-aged woman was found dead in her bedroom in a village near the city of Al-Mahalla Al-Kobra in the Delta Governorate of el-Gharbia. She'd been suffocated with her pillow. Two students, one of them the son of the bawwab in the block of flats where she lived, are helping police with their inquiries into her murder. The teenager suspects have admitted killing the lady and stealing her gold jewellery ��" three bracelets, two rings and three necklaces. Hiyyam Mohamed (56) died in her home in the village of Kafr Hegazi. The young men suspected of killing her have been named as Saad Ibrahim and Moustafa Hemad, both of them 19-year-old undergraduates in the Faculty of Agriculture at el-Mansoura University. Saad used to run errands for the woman they killed, buying her groceries from the market. On the night she died, he'd popped round to see whether she needed anything, but she said she didn't. He then said goodbye and apparently left her flat, shutting the door behind him. Yes, he shut the door, but he stayed inside the flat, without Hiyyam noticing. He managed to keep himself hidden until she went to sleep. He then quietly opened the door for Moustafa, who was waiting outside, as they'd previously arranged. They crept into the lady's bedroom, and killed and robbed her. Road rage: In the city of Abu Kabir, el- Sharqia Governorate, a tailor used his flick knife to stab a painter and decorator in the course of an argument. His victim, 23 yearold Nashaat Mohamed, was DOA at Abu Kabir General Hospital. Nashaat's killer was named as Hamouda Eid (20), from the nearby village of el-Sobki. The problems started when Hamouda was riding along one of the streets of Abu Kabir on his motorbike and it grazed the painter. The biker stopped and the pair started arguing with fatal consequences. Death in the cemeteries: Cairo Criminal Court has sentenced a tea seller called Soheir Tharwat to three years in prison, having found her guilty of the premeditated murder of her daughter. While her husband was in prison, Soheir got involved with another man and became pregnant. She gave birth to a little girl, who cried a lot. Concerned that the neighbours would hear her crying and put two and two together, Soheir killed her daughter. She said that she simply shut the baby girl in a cupboard and stopped feeding her till she died of hunger. The burial was an easy matter: Soheir lived in the Bab el-Nasr cemeteries and buried her in one of the tombs. Shortly after that, Soheir went to Medinat el Salam to stay with her husband's sister and the latter's husband. Perhaps Soheir's husband suspected something already, as he'd asked his sister to look after his wife and their children. While staying with her sister-in-law, Soheir told her about the baby. The sister-in-law went to the cemeteries and found the body of the baby. She then reported what happened to the police, who arrested her sister-in-law. A forensic examination suggested that Soheir had beaten the tiny girl to death, which led to the court giving her a heavier sentence than she might have expected.
