CAIRO: Police arrested Mohamed Hafez Abdel-Samei on Tuesday for the murders of Heba El-Akkad and Nadine Khaled in Sheikh Zayed’s Al-Nada compound last week.
Abdel-Samei was a blacksmith in the residential compound and, according to security sources, confessed to the crime after his arrest.
His confession came after police matched his DNA to a bloody shirt found near the crime scene. According to the police report, he claimed he had gone in for the purpose of stealing due to financial difficulties and did not expect to find anyone in the flat.
When he found Khaled, he was afraid she would scream so he stabbed her several times and killed her before searching for valuables. As he searched, he chanced upon El-Akkad and proceeded to stab her repeatedly also to silence her, the report continued.
He then fled the house and threw the knife and iron bar he had used in the killings outside the house.
The security source confirmed that forensic investigations showed that he had purposely killed Khaled, by inflicting several deadly thrusts and then cutting her, while his stabbing method was more haphazard with El-Akkad, with more flesh wounds which is why she died after excessive bleeding.
Abdel-Samei was taken to the Public Prosecutor’s office for further interrogation.
He said that he had gone from his house in Rod El Farag to the compound and waited five hours under a tree until night fell. He entered the flat not knowing who was in it and stole LE 200 and a mobile phone.
The reason behind his arrest was that after he committed the crime, he threw his bloodstained shirt out when he jumped from the apartment, he then stopped a microbus and told the driver he would give him LE 50 to take him to Rod El Farag.
It was the driver who went to the police after hearing about the case.
