Heliopolis café murderer’s trial adjourned to August 22

CAIRO – 21 May 2017: The case against a café employee charged with murdering a customer was adjourned Saturday by the Cairo Criminal Court. The trial will resume August 22.

According to initial investigations conducted by the general prosecution, defendant Amr Mostafa Hussein, 30, was charged with murdering Mohamed Bayoumy, 24, with a sharp tool in Keif café in Cairo’s upscale Heliopolis neighborhood. The café was later demolished by authorities.

Eye-witnesses said that defendant killed Bayoumy after the Egypt-Cameroon football game on Feb 5. TV host Amr Adeen showed video footage on his talk show, Every Day, showing Hussein confessing to the crime.

Café owner Osama el-Nagar and manager Abdel Raof Mahmoud were referred to a misdemeanor court on charges of retaining clients inside the café to force them to pay money more than the amount on the bill.

Bayoumy’s friends said the café owner would not allow them leave unless they paid the money.