Egyptian tycoon to die for pop star’s murder

A CAIRO court sentenced to death an Egyptian tycoon and an ex-cop hitman for the murder last year of the businessman’s former lover, Lebanese pop star Suzanne Tamim.

The judge ordered Hisham Talaat Mustafa and retired policeman Mohsen al-Sukkari hanged for respectively ordering and carrying out the brutal slaying of the singer in a luxury Dubai apartment in July.

Mustafa, a stalwart of Egypt’s ruling National Democratic Party, was found guilty of paying Sukkari $2 million (€1.6m) to cut the throat of Tamim, 30, at the Dubai flat she bought months before.