Death sentence against 3 convicts over killing Judge’s son upheld

CAIRO – 14 December 2017: Egypt’s Court of Cassation upheld the death sentences against three convicts belonging to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group on Thursday. The three killed the son of a judge in September 2014.

In July 2016, A Mansoura Criminal Court sentenced three convicts (who were present) and other two co-defendants, who are tried in absentia, to death over killing the 26-year-old son of Judge Mahmoud al-Sayed al-Merly, the head of the Cairo Court of Appeals.

The son was shot dead on September 10, 2014 in the garage of his house in Mansoura city (Delta’s Gharbia governorate).

The defendants face charges of deliberate murder, forming a terrorist cell, belonging to a banned terrorist group and possessing unlicensed guns.