Fifteen for the teens: In compliance with the amended Law for the Child and Punishments 126/2008, Damanhour Juvenile Criminal Court has sentenced three teenagers to 15 years in prison, having found them guilty of stealing a motorbike and stabbing its driver to death. The problems started when two of them didn't know how to get the bike started. This in itself aroused the suspicions of some passersby, who were made even more suspicious by the body on the road beside them. The passersby then dragged the pair off to the police station. The three friends, aged 16, 17 and 18, had agreed one night to go out and find a nice motorbike to steal, even if this meant murdering its owner. Two of them asked their victim to drive them to a remote road in the countryside. When they got there, they killed him. The role of the third friend, the 17-yearold, was to sell the motorbike they'd stolen. The first two were going to drive it to the place where he was waiting for them, but of course that never happened. The 17-year-old was arrested later. Hide those valuables: The Education Directorate in el-Beheira Governorate is probing a case of theft in el-Sayyeda Aisha School in Kafr el-Dawar. Three girls in fifth preparatory were walking along one of the corridors at the school, when a woman rushed up to them. She told them to remove their jewellery, because of the danger of thieves operating in the school. When they refused, she tore the gold from their necks and ran off. The victims reported the incident to the school administration. Teachers are now warning their female pupils not to wear jewellery to school, in case it gets stolen. Dawn raiders: Meanwhile, detectives in Fayoum Governorate have arrested three young men who stole 2kg of gold jewellery from a jeweller's in a village near Tamia. The suspects, a law student and two unemployed men, both holders of technical diplomas, are helping police with their inquiries. No-one was hurt in the incident, as they smashed their way into the shop in the village of Dar el-Salam in the early hours of the morning. The three suspects, who took everything they could find, were named as 18-year-old Amr Ahmed (the student) and his two jobless friends, Hameda Mohamed (21) and Karim Ahmed (also 18). Accidental patricide: Sohag Criminal Court has sentenced two brothers from a village near Tima to seven years in prison, for accidentally shooting dead their father in the course of an argument with their paternal cousin. It was last October, that Khalif Othman (63), a retired public sector nightwatchman, died after being shot in the chest. A 45 year-old painter and decorator called Ali Mohamed was taken to Tima Central Hospital for treatment, having been hit in the leg by a bullet in the same incident. The incident happened in the village of el-Riyayina, where the deceased and his two sons, Khalaf (25) and Mohamed (30), got into a serious argument over the boundaries of their agricultural land with the sons' cousin. The brothers started shooting at random, killing their father and injuring the painter.
