Egypt killer of wife, 3 kids sentenced to death

An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced a medical doctor to death by hanging after he admitted to having killed his wife and three children in a case that shocked the nation.

The verdict was delivered by the Criminal Court in the Nile Delta province of Kafr Al Shaikh after Egypt’s grand mufti backed the ruling, legal sources said.

On February 3, the same court issued a preliminary death sentence against the defendant and referred it to the country’s



top Muslim authority, a routine procedure in Egypt in cases involving death sentences.

The verdict was passed just after three hearing sessions of the trial, the legal sources added. Still, it can be appealed.

When the trial opened in January, the defendant, identified as Ahmad Abdullah, confessed to the murder, declining to give details. He attributed the multiple killings to what he described as “private reasons” and refused to hire a defence lawyer.