Divorced and depressed: A baker poured petrol on himself and set it alight in the street outside the bakery where he works, in el-Shohada district of el-Ismailia, to the horror of his customers and passersby. He was rushed to hospital in a critical condition. The baker tried to commit suicide, because his ex-wife had disappeared four years ago with their only child, a boy. He became very depressed because he wasn't able to see his son. Mohamed (30) got divorced from the boy's mother because they were always arguing. A remote grave: Detectives are trying to establish the identity of a body found at Kilo 69 on the 6th October-Oases Desert Road, in 6th October Governorate. The victim, a male, was thought to be in his forties. His body was in an advanced stage of decomposition. There were no external injuries to his body and it appears that he may have been suffocated by sand. He was found lying on his left side 4m from the railway that goes to the oases and 12m from the road that runs parallel to it at this point. The body was discovered by 46-yearold Lotfi Mohamed, who works for the Railway Administration in the Oases. He was walking along the railway line when he spotted the body sticking out of a sandy hillock. Mystery solved: This column yesterday reported that the decomposing body of a worker was found in his flat in Agouza, Giza Governorate and that officers were questioning the victim's widow about his violent death. Detectives have now arrested the woman and her lover on suspicion of murdering her husband, named as Romany Nazir Abdel-Sayyed, who'd been beaten and had his head smashed in. Romany's body was found by the police, who'd been told by his wife's brother, Rashad Fikri Khalaf, that there was a nasty smell coming from the victim's flat in Salah Abdel-Baqi Street. Unsurprisingly, Romany was always arguing with his wife, Saadia (30), because of her unemployed boyfriend, Badran Badr Wissa (also 30). She and Badran decided to kill Romany, so that they could continue their sexual relationship with no interference. On the day he died, Saadia made her husband a powdered orange drink, to which she'd added drugs. He drank it and passed out; she then let in her lover, Badran, who was waiting outside the flat. The drugs obviously weren't powerful enough, because Romany started to come round as Badran began to strangle him. Badran banged his head against the wall, while his wife hit him on the head with a pestle from the kitchen. Finally, her boyfriend gave him a lethal injection to finish him off. Saadia and Badran then had a bath together to wash off Romany's blood, before putting Badran's bloodstained clothes in a big bag, which they dumped in the desert in 6th October Governorate. Romany's widow went to stay with her family, telling that she and her husband had had a big argument and she'd just walked out on him. She and her lover have been charged with premeditated murder.
