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Dubai: The suspect involved in the bloody slaying of Lebanese singer Suzan Tamim is alive and still in police custody in Cairo, Gulf News confirmed on Tuesday.
On Monday, many Egyptian press reports said the suspect had committed suicide in custody. Some other reports said he had suffered a heart attack and was admitted to hospital. Egyptian police on Tuesday told Gulf News that the suspect was healthy.
Suzan was murdered in her luxury Dubai Marina Apartment on July 28. Almost two weeks after the crime, Dubai police announced they had identified the suspect who had been arrested in an Arab country.
Reports in the Arab press yesterday said the editor of an Egyptian weekly, Al Tareeq, had been questioned by police in Cairo over a report on the murder. This came two days after prosecutors in Cairo questioned the editor of another Egyptian daily Al Dustour for running a story on the crime. Two reporters of the daily were also summoned for questioning. Gulf News learnt that four journalists had been questioned yesterday over reports on the murder.
According to Arabic websites, Jamal Assi, Editor-in-Chief of Al Tareeq, was referred to court for violating a ban on publishing a report about investigations involving suspects in the case.
Al Tareeq had published a story, which linked Egyptian tycoon Hesham Talaat Mustafa to the crime. It quoted sources as saying he had hired a former police officer who slit her throat for a fee of Dh4 million.
- With inputs from Ramadan Al Sherbini, Cairo Correspondent
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