Region | Egypt
Evidence costs lawyers a fortune in Suzan case
Will have to pay an estimated 803 million Egyptian pounds to copy 459 million snapshots.
- By Ramadan Al Sherbini, Correspondent
- Published: 00:00 May 15, 2010
Cairo: Lawyers for Mohsin Al Sukkari, the main Egyptian defendant in a Dubai murder case, are at pains to get copies of pictures — snapped on a surveillance camera — of the person who allegedly killed Lebanese diva Suzan Tamim, in her luxury apartment in July 2008.
They believe that the pictures are so hazy that they can prove their client's innocence.
Their optimism is, however, diminished by the huge sum of money they must pay in order to procure copies of these pictures.
Their client — charged with killing Suzan for $2 million (Dh7.3 million) for an Egyptian business tycoon — will have to pay an estimated 803 million Egyptian pounds to copy 459 million snapshots.
"This is unbelievable," Anees Al Menawi, the main lawyer for Mohsin, said.
"I'll talk to his father to see what to do," he added on Thursday.
In May 2009, a Cairo criminal court sentenced Mohsin, an ex-policeman, along with Hesham Talaat Mustafa, one of Egypt's leading real estate developers, to death for involvement in the murder of Suzan.
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