Wednesday 28/January/2026 – 12:19 AM
Cairo 24 obtained the text of the investigation into the case of the killing of a young man in Al-Marj by his wife after they had a dispute over preparing food. He received a stab from her that killed him instantly.
Confessions of the murderer of her husband, the groom of Al-Marj
Investigating officers in Cairo listened to the statements of Al-Marj’s wife, accused of killing her husband, and they were as follows: My name is Heba Abdel Halim, I am 21 years old, and I am a housewife.
Q: You are accused of killing the victim, Ahmed Magdy Abdel Aziz, intentionally, without premeditation, by beating him and inflicting a blow on him that landed in his chest from the right side, using a white weapon, a knife. The next accusation is the injuries confirmed in the medical report that claimed his life at the time.
A: It didn’t happen. I hit him against my will and he’s hurting me.
Q: Are you accused of carrying a knife without a license, as stated in the investigations?
A: It didn’t happen. It was a kitchen knife and I was cutting cucumbers with it.
Q: What are the details of what happened and what were the circumstances of your arrest and presentation to us?
A: I was sitting at home, and then Ahmed, my husband, came back from work, and then he told me where the food was. I told him to bring it to you. I found him, and he started yelling at me and cursing at me and my family. Then I got annoyed and told him to stop so that he wouldn’t insult your family. I also found him. He came to the kitchen while I was preparing the food, and I found him, and he extended his hand on me and pushed me.. And then I also kept yelling and taking his hand away from me. He and I preferred to separate ourselves, and I was feeling sorry for myself when he grabbed my right hand and wrapped it behind my back. My hand had the knife in it because I used to eat with it, and then when he was coming back, I found him falling to the ground, and I found blood on the knife, so I quickly threw it away.
Al-Marj’s wife continued during the investigations: I thought that he had become ill with her by mistake, and I came to pick him up and found him bleeding, and I feared for him, and I was afraid and did not know what to do. I quickly called his sister Shaima and told her to follow me quickly, and she immediately came to me. Ahmed Magdy was lying on the ground, and after that we removed him and took him to the hospital, and he had died at that time. When the government came, I told the officer that all of this had happened, and that was it. What happened?
Q: Are there disagreements between you and the deceased, may God have mercy on him?
A: No at all. We were married for friendly love. It was the devil’s hour, and all of this happened unintentionally.
Q: When and where did this happen?
This happened last December 30 at 8:30 pm in Al-Marj.
Q: Who was with you at the time?
A: My husband, Ahmed Magdy, was with me, and after that, his sister, Shaima, came out of the apartment after calling for her.
Q: What was your initial meeting with the victim at that time?
A: He came home to me after he finished working on the tuktuk.
Q: What was the aforementioned condition?
A: He was coming back from work, like any man who comes home from work, not in the best condition and a little tired.
Q: Did you have a dialogue with the deceased?
A: Yes.
Q: What is the content of that dialogue?
A: He asked me about the food and I told him I would prepare it for you. I found him getting annoyed and he started yelling and cursing at me and insulting my family, and I had told him not to insult my family so that I wouldn’t make a mistake about your family.
Q: What is the reason why the deceased, at the mercy of his Lord Almighty, assaulted you?
A: Because when he went home, the food was not ready because I was tired because of the pregnancy.
Q: How did the deceased assault you at that time?
A: When I couldn’t eat, he started cursing me and cursing my family, and I responded to him and told him, “Don’t make a mistake about my family, because you’re about your family, too.” I met him. He got up, made an angry face at me in the kitchen, and started cursing at me. He grabbed my right hand, holding the knife in it, and twisted it around, and sat down, hurting me in the back.
Q: How many blows did he inflict on the victim specifically before his death?
A: He hit me four times in the back with his hands.
Q: Where exactly did these strikes land?
A: In my back, he was holding my right hand and waving it.
Q: Was the victim carrying any tools or weapons when he assaulted you?
A: He used to hit me with his hand only.
Q: What do you say about what you decided to us in advance that the reason for the outbreak of that verbal altercation between you and the deceased was that you did not prepare the food, and that was contrary to what you have decided to us now, that incident B occurred while you were in the kitchen, the site of the incident, and that was when you were inside the kitchen preparing food, holding in your hand the white weapon used to injure the victim?
Q: I was making a salad with cucumber pieces, and I was going to make any food and that’s it.
Q: What condition were you in at that time?
A: I was standing in the kitchen holding a knife and cutting cucumbers with it.
Q: What was the distance between you and the deceased when he received that blow with the same weapon?
A: A close distance of less than half a metre.
Q: What was your response to the deceased if he received that blow from the knife in your possession?
A: The medal was on my back, and he was holding it in my hand and wrapping it behind my back while I was holding the knife with it.
Q: Did that fall result in any injuries to the victim?
A: No.
The head “you colored it on”?
A: I don’t know where this injury came from.
Q: What is your explanation for the existence of this injury?
A: It is possible that when he fell on the ground, his head flopped and became sloppy
Q: What do you say about what the victim’s sister decided during the Public Prosecution’s investigations? “We read it to him in detail
What happened, I said about it.
