Sameh suffers: A driver nearly paid with his life, when he gave his wife a beating in her family's home. Her brother and their paternal cousin, and two of their friends reacted to this by stabbing him repeatedly. The injured party, Sameh Hani, was taken to Om el-Masriyeen General Hospital in the Omraniya district of Giza to be treated for stab wounds. Sameh's assailants were named as Mohamed Fawzi (his brother-in-law); Mohamed Badr (his cousin-in-law); and their two friends, Mohamed Adel (a worker) and a 15-year-old boy named only as Abdou. They are all helping police with their inquiries into the incident. A narrow escape: A young woman had a narrow escape when four young men kidnapped her late at night in Bashteel, 6th October Governorate. They took her to the flat of a friend of theirs in order to rape her, but he refused to let them in, so they stabbed him with their knives and forced their way in. Their victim was saved when someone came round to see the friend. As he approached the flat, Tareq el-Awwadi, a 42- year-old worker, heard a woman screaming and went to get help. Officers from Awseem Police Station turned up and arrested the four suspects. They were named as Mohamed (21), Shaaban (19), Saeed (18) and Ahmed (17), all unemployed. As well as their knives, police confiscated their hashish. Their intended victim was a servant girl returning home from work. Alexandrians to hang: Alexandria Criminal Court has sentenced a plumber called el-Sayyed Mohamed to death, having found him guilty of murdering an old lady, with the help of her friend and a jeweller. The motive was theft, as they stole her jewellery. The victim was named as Damiana Samir and her friend as Hamda Mohamed. When Damiana, who lived in the Moharrem Bek district of Alex, told her friend she needed a plumber, Hamda immediately recommended el-Sayyed. He went round to fix the plumbing in her flat, but strangled her and stabbed her instead, getting away with a number of items of gold jewellery: four bracelets, a necklace, a number of rings and some earrings. Hamda and the jeweller have yet to be sentenced for their part in the crime. The same court has also sentenced a young woman to death. Hind Ragab (23), a graduate of the Faculty of Hotels and Tourism, was found guilty along with her husband, 29-year-old Osama Mohamed, of killing her paternal uncle. The uncle, an Egyptian millionaire who also had an American passport, lived in the United States for the last 20 years of his life. As well as owning a computer shop in New Jersey, he had business interests in Egypt. Shawqi Ibrahim put his niece, Hind, in charge of his business interests here. A few months before his death, Shawqi had sent her a large sum of money to invest in the business, instead of which she and Osama spent it on themselves, as reported in this column at the time of the murder. The deceased travelled to Egypt shortly before his death, in order to check on how her husband decided to kill him, because they knew he'd find out that there was something fishy going on with the money. Osama has yet to be sentenced.
