A Cairo court Thursday deferred to May 22 the case of an Egyptian real-estate tycoon and an ex-policeman accused of slaying a Lebanese singer as the court allowed the defendants' lawyers to obtain a CD of pictures of one suspect. "The lawyers are permitted to get a CD of the movements of defendant Mohssen el-Sukari in two Dubai hotels from Egypt's Ministry of Interior," the court said Thursday. It added that the hearings would resume on May 22. The retrial of Hisham Talaat Moustafa, a real estate tycoon and former MP, and el-Sukari, a former state security policeman, who appeared along with Moustafa in the prisoners' cage in court, started on Monday before being adjourned to allow the defence to review the case. Suzanne Tamim's alleged assassins were sentenced to hang before an appeals court quashed the two convictions. The court reviewed still images captured by CCTV cameras of el-Sukari entering and leaving the building that housed Tamim's Dubai flat on July 28, 2008, the day of the murder. The footage showed him wandering in Tamim's building after a change of clothes. Dubai police later found bloodied clothes dumped in the building. The court questioned an Egyptian security officer about the photos in Thursday's session, who said that he had extracted them from the CCTV footage. However, he said he could not say whether the images were fabricated or not.
