Objection to the gratification: Six young men in el-Menoufia Governorate are helping police with their inquiries into the death of a young man whose body was found 500 yards from the village of Babal near Tella, close to the Sharqawia Canal. The victim was identified as Ahmed Anwar (22), who worked as a sewage supervisor in Shebeen el-Kom. He'd been stabbed to death. Ahmed and the six suspects, all from Babal, had spent the day being entertained by a young woman from Kafr el-Sheikh Seleem near Tanta, el- Gharbia Governorate. The sexual gratification happened in a hut near where Ahmed's body was found. The young woman too has been arrested. The problems started when one of the six suspects, Haytham Moustafa, started arguing with one of the other six, Diaa Moustafa, his brother. It got very nasty and, when Ahmed tried to intervene, Haytham stabbed him to death. Haytham, Diaa and the other four suspects – Kamel Mahrous, Mahmoud Galal, Mohamed Ibrahim Saad and Mohamed Ibrahim el-Deeb – then dumped his body near the canal. What sparked the argument in the first place was that Haytham was angry that his younger brother, Diaa, had followed the rest to the hut and insisted on joining in the fun. Haytham thought it was wrong of his brother to gratify himself with a woman outside of marriage. Tribute near Tora: Three brothers, all exconvicts, have been charged by the Maadi Prosecutor with aggravated robbery and arson. The suspects set up a checkpoint on the Autostrade at Shaqq el-Thaaban (the Fissure of the Serpent), a quarrying district near Tora and forced motorists, turning into the quarries, to pay them tribute. One driver, coming from Helwan, whom they stopped, refused to pay them LE50 so they beat him up and torched his truck. The driver went to the police. He'd been driving a truck-full of marble to one of the factories in the Fissure of the Snake when he was attacked. The thugs beat him and set fire to his vehicle, as well as stealing his mobile, in order to terrorise the other lorry drivers entering the quarries into paying too. The three brothers have denied all the charges against them. What Hamdia knew: Fayoum Criminal Court has sentenced the owner of a mobile phone shop and his mother-in-law to three years in prison, having found them guilty of luring a housewife into his shop, where the the shop's owner tried to rape her at knifepoint. It was on 30th July last year that Hamdia Saber (40) went to Tamia Police Station to report what Mohamed Saeed (27) and his youthful mother-in-law, Badria Mohamed (36), had done to her. It was Badria who asked her to come into the shop, because she had some medicines to sell her. Hamdia ventured in and they gave her a glass of juice laced with drugs to drink. She drank it and Mohamed tried to rape her. But she started screaming and he stabbed her. She then managed to escape from the shop. Mohamed had planned the sexual assault, because he and his mother-in-law were sexually involved and Hamdia had found out about them.
