Mohamed the mechanic: Benha Criminal Court has sentenced a housewife and her lover to death, having found them guilty of murdering her husband, a 40-year-old mechanic called Mohamed Ahmed, so they could continue with their illicit romance without any interruptions. It was last year that the remains of their victim were found in a large bag beside a road near el-Khosous, el- Qaliubia Governorate. Police were able to establish Mohamed's identity by checking the numbers on his mobile phone, which they also found in the bag. Detectives then discovered that his widow, Jehan (40), was involved with a 45-year-old car broker called Samir. When Mohamed realised what they were up to, they put poison in his tea. When he passed out, they stabbed him to death, then dumped his body on the roadside. The rapists of Rasha: South Cairo Criminal Court has sentenced a driver called Mohamed Fayez to 15 years in prison, having found him guilty of kidnapping and raping a housewife. His two accomplices, Mohamed Saad (also a driver) and Momein Mohamed, a sweet seller, were both sentenced to 10 years in the same case. The trio kidnapped their victim as she was going to visit her father. They forced her to accompany them to some fields, where they assaulted her. As reported in this column several months ago, Rasha had stormed out of her husband's flat late at night, after they'd had a big argument. She got a taxi to her father's place, but on the way a tok-tok overtook it, then slowed down, forcing the driver to stop. The three men inside got out and forced her out of the taxi at knifepoint. They made her get into the tok-tok, which they then drove to the fields. More kidnappings: Cairo Police have made arrests in two kidnapping incidents in the space of 24 hours. In the first incident, a computer engineer, who lives in Maadi, lured his sweetheart, a teenage secondary school girl in Ezbet el-Ward district of el-Bassateen, to a privately owned farm in Wadi el-Natroun. She thought they were just going there for a nice day out, but, once they arrived, her 27-year-old boyfriend's tone changed. He took her hostage and rang her father, telling him to pay LE20,000 to get his daughter, Shaimaa (15), back. Shaimaa's father went to the police after receiving the ransom demand and they freed his daughter, as well as arresting her kidnapper, who said he committed this crime because he was desperate for money. In the second incident, an unemployed man from Badr City in Helwan Governorate got his friend from el-Waraaq in Giza to help him kidnap his ex-wife's brother's son. They grabbed him while he was playing outside his family's home in el-Moqattam and drove off with him on their motorbike. It was a crime of revenge, as the jobless kidnapper, 25-year-old Mohamed Magdi, blamed his brother-in-law (the boy's father) for driving a wedge between himself and his former wife. The father of nine-year-old Ahmed Hamdi went to el-Moqattam Police, who were able to arrest Mohamed and his friend.
