Mystery solved: This column Wednesday reported that detectives were trying to establish the identity of a boy, aged about 14, whose body was found in the fields near Abul Numrus, 6th October Governorate. It has now been established that the victim was called Abdullah Ismail (13). They have arrested a 22-year-old worker called Hisham Ali on suspicion of murdering him. He admitted luring Abdullah late at night to the fields where he stabbed him to death, so that he could steal his toktok. Hisham, a former convict, then got his wife's brother to try and sell the vehicle. The victim's fully clothed body was dumped in a large plastic bag on land belonging to a 54-year-old driver called Sayyed Abdou, beside the Souq Road, that leads to el- Saqaria Canal, near the village of el-Manwat, not far from Abul Numrus. Hisham's brother-in-law, a 30-year-old worker called Hassan Mohamed, has also been arrested. Both suspects have been charged with premeditated murder and theft. Abdullah lived in el-Bahr Street in el-Hawamdia, Giza Governorate, on the other side of the Nile from Maadi. Police found LE9.50 in his pocket, that Hisham had overlooked. Crime in Qaliubia: There were two nasty crimes in el-Qaliubia Governorate on the same day. In the first incident in Kafr Shukr, two brothers killed a driver who tried to intervene when they were arguing; in the second incident el- Khosous, a retired civil servant and his sons murdered a construction worker in a vendetta. The driver, 30-year-old Saad Ezzab, was DOA at Kafr Shukr General Hospital, having been stabbed by the two brothers. Saad saw one of the suspects, aged 37 and also a driver, arguing with his brother. They knifed him when he tried to break it up. The construction worker who died in the second incident was named as Ahmed Ramadan (30). He too was stabbed to death. In 1996, he murdered a young man from the Abul Magd family, a crime for which he spent five years in prison. But the victim's family thought this punishment wasn't adequate, so three Abul Magds killed Ahmed: Mutawae (68) and his two sons, Ahmed, a 30-year-old blacksmith, and 32-year-old Mahmoud (unemployed). The three suspects have been arrested. Nasty rumours: Shebeen el-Kom Criminal Court in el-Menoufia Governorate has sentenced a man who murdered his neighbour's son to life imprisonment. He killed the boy because his father had been spreading nasty rumours about the behaviour of his (the killer's) wife. The little boy had his head cut off. It was on October 5th 2008 that villagers from el-Denshewai went to el-Shohada Police Station to report finding the headless body of a boy in a sack, floating in a canal in their village. The four-year-old victim was called Mohamed Shaaban. He was decapitated by his family's neighbour, 43-year-old Khalifa Abdel-Fattah, a driver. Khalifa is also a paternal cousin of the man who spread the rumours.
