Killers of Egyptian T.V. presenter Shaimaa Gamal sentenced to death

CAIRO – 11 September 2022: Egyptian Judge Ayman Hagag, who is charged with killing his wife, T.V. presenter Shaimaa Gamal, with malice aforethought, has been sentenced to death, stated a Giza criminal court on Sunday.

The judge’s co-defendant was also sentenced to death, the court added, saying that the first convict intended to get rid of Gamal because she was threatening him by disclosing his secrets. He asked the second convict to murder her for a sum of money.

The two convicts lured Gamal to the farm where they committed their crime under the pretext of seeing it to buy it. They hit her on the head, suffocated her to death, and then buried her.

The Public Prosecution announced in June launching a probe into the murder of Gamal after her husband, a member of judicial authority, reported that she is missing. The husband told the prosecution that his wife disappeared outside a commercial complex in October City in Giza without accusing anyone.

On Sunday, a person expressed willingness to the prosecution to give his testimony about the incident, saying he maintained a close relationship with the husband of Gamal. The person said the husband got involved in the murder of Gamal over a an argument between them, affirming that he watched the circumstances of the murder and knows the place where Gamal is buried.

The prosecution obtained permission from the judicial authority where the husband works to start investigations in the incident and ordered his arrest.

The prosecution found the body of the victim after being guided by the person, who said he witnessed the crime.