THE TELEGRAPH: An Egyptian businessman accused of killing his lover, a Lebanese singer, has been shown gruesome photographs of her dead body.
Hishaam Talaat Moustafa, a property and hotels magnate with close ties to the Egyptian government, is being retried on murder charges for which he was sentenced to hang last year.
Opening the case against him in a Cairo court, the prosecution displayed pictures of Suzanne Tamim lying on the floor of her Dubai flat with her throat slit. She also had wounds indicating she tried to defend herself in a struggle.
The court was also shown closed circuit television footage taken from the apartment block, in Dubai's Jumeirah Beach Residences complex.
In it, a man identified as Mohsen el-Sukkari, a security officer working in one of Mr Moustafa's hotels, was seen to enter on the day in July 2008 that Miss Tamim was killed. Prosecutors say that, acting on Moustafa's orders, he gained access pretending to work for the apartment's owners and killed her when she answered her door. >>> Samer al-Atrush in Cairo | Wednesday, April 28, 2010
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