Revenge: In the village of el-Matahara near Abu Qorqas in el-Minya Governorate, a housewife got her revenge on one of her neighbours, a woman called Rasha Moustafa, by strangling her three-year-old son. The killer was angry with the boy's mother for spreading nasty rumours about her husband divorcing her and marrying another woman. The body of little Kareem Taha was found dumped on the outskirts of the village. Souad Hassan had used her headscarf to strangle him. Quarrelsome killer convicted: A Palestinian man has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Cairo, having been found guilty of premeditated murder. Ahmed Gad Ayyash, a painter and decorator, shared a flat in Ain Shams with another Palestinian man, called Mohamed Ali. It was one night in 2008, as this column reported at the time, that Ahmed and Ali had a nasty argument, which only ended when the painter and decorator stabbed Ali to death. Ahmed also stabbed and injured a Palestinian student called Hatem Soleiman Mansour. Ahmed had left his family's home, because he was always quarrelling. He moved into flat with his two friends, Ali and Hatem, but he was forever quarrelling with them too. When they were both fast asleep, Ahmed launched a vicious attack on them. Fatal recklessness: A young man, driving his car at high speed through the informal area of el-Doweiqa near Manshiyet Nasser one evening, lost control of the vehicle without licence plates, mounted the pavement and ran over and killed four children, who had been playing happily together. The driver, who was caught by local people and taken to the police station, claimed that there was something wrong with the brakes in his 'Jeep', which ploughed into his innocent victims in a street near the Suzanne Mubarak Buildings. The four children who died, all boys, were named as Khaled Mohamed (six), Islam Sayyed (11), Mohamed Salah (also six) and Essam Abdel-Rahman (six too). The reckless motorist who ran them over was named as Ashraf Diab (33). Rape by all accounts: A man from 6th October City raped one of his colleagues, an assistant university lecturer at the American University in Cairo, after anaesthetising her. They'd just been to a party with some friends and it was meant to be the last time he'd see her, as she was about to get married. After violating her, he dumped her in the street. She went to the police and the suspect has now been arrested. The offence happened when he was escorting her to her home in Mohandiseen. He'd always treated her like his own sister, but that night he changed. There are conflicting reports, however. According to another version of the story, the victim told police that a microbus driver had raped her, before she admitted that this was untrue and that it was her friend, a computer programmer, who'd committed the offence. According to this second version, the suspect and the victim were romantically involved and he wanted to end the affair. He raped her in his car and dumped her on one of the roads in the desert near 6th October City. The suspect had asked the victim's family for her hand in marriage seven months, but they'd declined him.
