The Monday Circuit of the Court of Cassation rejected the appeal filed by the defendants “Ayman Hajjaj” and “Hussein Muhammad” against their accusation of killing Media figure “Shaima Gamal”and upholding their death sentence.
The court had previously ruled unanimously in absentia to sentence the accused, Ayman Abdel Fattah Hajjaj and Hussein Muhammad Al-Gharabli, to death by hanging, for the first and third charges (premeditated murder).
The Attorney General had previously ordered the referral of the accused to… Criminal trialAt the conclusion of the investigations conducted by the Public Prosecution, the investigations showed that the first accused Ayman Hajjaj (The husband of the victim, media figure Shaimaa Gamal) intended to get rid of her, because she threatened to reveal their secrets, and blackmailed him to keep it secret by asking him for sums of money, so he offered the second accused, Hussein Al-Gharabli, to help him kill her, and the latter accepted in exchange for a sum of money that the first accused promised him.
Investigations revealed that the accused had resolved and intended to take the life of Media figure Shaima GamalThey made a plan to rent a remote farm to kill her there and hide her body in a grave they would dig there.
The prosecution indicated that the defendants bought tools to dig the grave, and prepared a gun and a piece of cloth to securely kill the victim and paralyze her resistance, chains and iron shackles to transport the body to the grave after killing her, and a flammable substance to disfigure its features before burying it.
The investigations revealed that on the day they had set to implement their plan, the first accused lured her to the farm under the pretext of examining it in order to buy it, while the second accused was waiting for her as per their plan. When they found her there, the first accused surprised her by hitting her on the head with the handle of the gun, causing her to lose her balance and fall to the ground. He knelt on her with his hands and the piece of cloth until he suffocated her, while the second accused held her to paralyze her resistance, intending to kill her until they were certain of her death, causing the injuries described in the autopsy report, which led to her death. Then they bound her body with shackles and chains and put it in the grave they had prepared, and poured the caustic substance over it to disfigure its features.