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28 March 2024

Message sent by victim before death leads to arrest of murderer

A message sent by a 27-year-old Kuwaiti woman from Egypt helped Egyptian authorities to arrest the man who later killed her and her 60-year-old Saudi mother. (File)

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A message sent by a 27-year-old Kuwaiti woman from Egypt helped Egyptian authorities to arrest the man who later killed her and her 60-year-old Saudi mother.
 
The story went viral on social media over the past few days.
 
The Kuwaiti woman and her mother had gone to Egypt to buy a house in Cairo and a farm in the country’s Al Menya district.
 
The Kuwaiti woman sent a video and pictures on Snapchat app showing that she was in a deserted farm with her mother and she begged her followers to pray for them to help them leave the area safely. She also shared the location of the farm with her family in Kuwait and told them that she was kidnapped with her mother and feared that they are going to die.
 
These messages have helped Egyptian authorities to locate its source and they found out that it was sent from a phone from a farm in Al Menya district. Police went to the farm and arrested the suspect’s wife who was also his partner in crime.
 
The suspect run away after the crime to Cairo but the authorities were able to arrest him and his three brothers-in-law who were also involved in the crime.
 
Egyptian security sources said the suspect used to work for the victims in Saudi Arabia. He convinced them to buy an apartment in Cairo and also persuaded them to invest in an agriculture project in Egypt by buying a farm.
 
The suspect got greedy when he saw one million Egyptian pounds which the two women were carrying with them. He planned the crime with his wife.
 
He invited the victims to stay in his house in Egypt’s Asyout district. He then received 200,000 Egyptian pounds from the victims to buy a house for them in Cairo but, instead, he bought a farm from his brothers-in-law in Al Menya district. 
 
The suspect then shot the two women and threw the dead bodies of the two women into a well in the farm. They later filled the well completely with earth.
 
The suspect admitted that they bought this farm to make sure that no one enters it and thought that nobody will ever discover their crime.
 
The source added that the suspect’s three brothers-in-law suspected that there is something wrong. They demanded to know from their sister from where her husband had got EGP200,000 to buy the farm. They also wanted to know where the two women, who had come with them, had gone.

Under pressure of their questioning, their sister collapsed and admitted to murdering the two women with the help of her husband. However, her brothers kept quiet and did not inform the authorities.
 
Egyptian authorities called the families of the dead women and compared their DNA tests which confirmed that the dead women were their relatives.
 
All the suspects were sent to the prosecution for further investigation.