Weeks following the incident that shook the country, the Egyptian Public Prosecutor, Hamada El-Sawy, referred those accused of killing the journalist Shaima Jamal to the Criminal Court.
The court convicted the husband, Ayman Hajjaj, a member of a judicial authority, and his partner, Hussein Al-Garabli, with the crime of premeditated murder.
Continuing incarceration
Al-Sawy ordered the defendants to be referred to the competent criminal court, while their pretrial detention continued.
These developments came following the Public Prosecution’s investigations revealed that the judge, the announcer’s husband, planned to get rid of her following threatening him to reveal their secrets, and bargaining for secrecy by requesting sums of money from him.
After many problems, the husband offered his old friend (the second accused) to help him in carrying out his crime, and he accepted the latter for money.
Their fingerprints revealed them
It is noteworthy that the forensic report confirmed that the announcer’s death came due to muting herself and putting pressure on her neck, and the obstruction of the airways caused by this pressure.
The evidence also included the presence of the accused’s genetic fingerprints on the piece of cloth that was found with the deceased’s body, and used in the incident, as well as the presence of the phone chips used by the accused and the victim on the day of the crime, according to the communication tower located near the crime scene.
crime following disappearance
It is noteworthy that the security services had found last week the body of the Egyptian broadcaster Shaima Gamal, who had disappeared weeks ago, inside a villa farm in one of the cities of Giza Governorate in the south of the country.
While the family of the late woman announced that she did not know the secret of her murder, nor the killer’s motives to get rid of her in this brutal way.
