FILE – The two children killed by their father
CAIRO – 27 August 2018: “I killed my children and [I] threw them in the sea to relieve them from me and from the suffering they will witness in life because of me,” Mahmoud, an Egyptian citizen who was found guilty of killing his two children stated.
On August 22, which marked the second day of Muslims’ Eid El-Adha feast, bodies of Rayan, 5, and Mohamed, 3, were found floating in a watercourse in Damietta governorate’s Faraskur.
Mahmoud said he killed them to guarantee they will go to paradise as they are still young and have not committed any sin in their life. Mahmoud called for quick execution, saying that he regrets his crime. “I don’t want to live after [their death],” he stated.
The Ministry of Interior published a video on its official Facebook page for Mahmoud while admitting his crime and disclosing its circumstances.
Mahmoud, a farmer, told the police on August 21 that he lost his two children in a park in Meet Salseel in Dakahlia.
Mahmoud said that he ran into someone in the park who pretended to be his colleague many years ago; once the man left, Mahmoud figured out that the kids disappeared. Apparently, Mahmoud was lying.
However, the father, who claimed that he lost his children in the park, was seen by eye witnesses leaving the park with his children in the car, according to the police reports.
Surveillance cameras also showed Mahmoud heading to Faraskur Bridge over the watercourse where the children's bodies were found.
Attempting to confuse the police, Mahmoud said that he had a dispute with a number of antiquities traders, and that he has naked photos for a lady he used to threaten.
During his confession published by the ministry, Mahmoud said that he killed the children because they were disturbing him, adding that he used tamol drug before he committed the crime.
Seven lawyers defending Mahmoud refused to continue advocating him after they heard his confession, according to media reports.
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