Boulos and his imagination: A driver told police that the owner of 'The Pasha', a cafeteria in el-Sahel district of Shubra, had told his 38-year-old partner in the business not to marry him. “So I stabbed him through the heart at dawn, when all the customers had gone home,” he said. The body of 36-year-old Hazem Hussein was found at 6am, shortly after his death, by his business partner, who'd become worried and gone round to the coffee shop, when she'd rung him on his mobile and he hadn't answered. It was soon discovered that Hazem was murdered by a taxi driver called Boulos (40) from Imbaba. He knifed his victim in the back while he was watching television in the café, after all the customers had gone home. Boulos acted on impulse, as it appears that he only imagined that Hazem had put a spanner in the marital works. Missing money mystery: In el- Bassateen, southern Cairo, the owners of a well-known car company rang the police to say that LE1.5 million had disappeared from the safe of the company in its premises on the Nile Corniche. The safe had been broken into. Detectives have been taking fingerprints and talking to workers in the company about the incident. There is every indication that the theft was an inside job and that more than one person was involved. The thieves must have been aware that there'd be a lot of cash in the safe when they struck. A shortage of cash:A42-year-old driver called Mohamed Ahmed is helping police with their inquiries into the untimely death of his 34-year-old wife, Abeer Mostafa. The couple got married 15 years ago and had three children: Ahmed (14), Asraa (eight) and Asmaa (five). Mohamed and his wife originally lived in the Deir el-Nahia district of Doqqi, southern Giza. Like any couple, Abeer and her husband had their moments, but their arguments were never very serious. Seven years ago, they moved to Abul Nomrus, where Mohamed worked as a taxi driver, while his wife cleaned people's flats to help them make ends meet. Things began to go wrong when Mohamed lost his job. He spent all day at home and, because they had very little money, Abeer borrowed some cash from the neighbours, so she could feed the family. This made Mohamed very angry and he told her not to do it again. When she refused to answer, he beat her and threatened to go and live with his family in el-Qattamia. One morning, he woke up and Abeer wasn't in the bed with him. He got up, walked out of the flat and spotted her talking to one of the neighbours. When she came back in, he beat her again, then went back to sleep. When Mohamed woke up again, he discovered that his wife had torn all her clothes. This made him extremely angry and he strangled her with her headscarf. Shortly afterwards, Mohamed's fatherin- law popped round to see his daughter. Her killer realised the game was up. He ran off and was caught shortly afterwards.
