Husband drugs wife and sells her kidney

Published Tuesday, December 06, 2011

Husband drugs wife, sells kidney for Dh6,000

An unemployed Egyptian identified as Khaled. L has been arrested and charged with stealing his wife’s kidney.

In a plot straight out of a movie, the police in Cairo, Egypt, received a tip off from the family of the victim that man stole a kidney.

According to the report in Egyptian newspaper ‘Al Youm Al Sabea’a’, the wife told the police that her husband drugged her juice and when she felt sick, told her he was taking her to hospital.

At the clinic he took her to, she was sedated under the pretext of treatment and her kidney was removed.

She accused her husband of signing an agreement with the sponsors of the clinic to buy the kidney for 12,000 (Dh6,000) Egyptian pounds.

The victim's wife who is identified as Hana’a Y is a housewife said has a child.

“I was surprised to discover a bandage on my right side and did not know the reason. My family rushed me to the hospital where they were shocked when they discovered my kidney was gone,” she said.

Sorry, I was drunk: thief tells police

A thief who robbed a pharmacy in Kuwait and was seized on the next day apologized and told police he was drunk during the robbery.

The unidentified man stormed the pharmacy in Kuwait City on Sunday night and used a gun to rob KD300 ($1,000) before fleeing in his US-made car.

“Police seized the thief on the next day after the pharmacy worker gave them his descriptions and the car number,” the Kuwaiti daily Alanba said on Tuesday.

“The man said he was sorry because he was drunk and did not know what he had done.”

Boy kidnapped and raped in Kuwait

A 10-year-old Egyptian boy was playing near his house in Kuwait when an unknown man asked if he can join him.

The boy accepted the man’s offer and the game later developed into a chase to a deserted area. The boy then wanted to return home but the man grabbed him.

“The man raped the boy and fled…the boy rushed to his mother and told her…she reported the man to the police who are still looking for the rapist,” the Kuwaiti Arabic language daily Alwatan said.

One year in jail for robbing taxi driver

A Nigerian visitor received one year in jail followed by deportation for robbing a taxi driver.

SHO, 26 stopped a taxi in Sharjah and asked him to drop him to Dubai.

“Once he arrived at the destination in Dubai he held my neck and pulled out Dh300 from my shirt pocket and Dh830 from my purse and ran away,” the driver Mohammed Nasimuddin testified.

The victim recognized the accused in an identification parade.

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