Death sentence for woman and accomplices in Nile murder case

The Cairo Criminal Court has sentenced a housewife, her brother, and her cousin to death for the premeditated murder of her husband.

• The court convicted the three defendants of killing the husband with premeditation and dumping his body in the Nile River in Menoufia.
• The Grand Mufti issued a report supporting the death sentence as legally justified for the crime.
• The wife and her relatives drugged the victim on a boat and drowned him after he decided to marry another woman.
• The body was discovered in the Nile days later, and the wife confessed to the murder during police investigation.