THE TELEGRAPH: One of Egypt's most powerful businessmen has denied murdering his Lebanese pop singer lover in a case that has caused fascination across the Middle East.
Hisham Talaat Moustafa appeared in court along with one of his employees, Mohsen el-Sukkari, a former state security officer, who police say slit the throat of Suzanne Tamim in her Dubai apartment.
"It didn't happen. None of that happened," Mr Moustafa, dressed in white prison clothes, told the court from the black cage in which the men were held.
The two men have already been sentenced to hang by a court in Cairo, but a retrial was ordered by an appeal judge citing legal irregularities in the lower court.The judge said defence requests went ignored in the trial and Mr Sukkari was first questioned in the absence of a lawyer.
The trial was postponed to Wednesday to allow the defence to review evidence. >>> Samer al-Atrush in Cairo | Monday, April 26, 2010
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