On 25th November, it was reported that a 40-year-old jealous husband who stabbed his 43-year-old wife and 52-year-old neighbour has been found guilty of their murders.
Birmingham Mail reported that Tamer Moustafa was high on cocaine when he killed Nelly Moustafa at their home in Belle Walk, Moseley, on March 16 and then stabbed his next-door neighbour Zahida Bi.
Birmingham Crown Court heard that the “delusional” 40-year-old had incorrectly believed that his wife had been unfaithful to him and thus, inflicted around 80 knife injuries to each victim.
The court also heard that he suffered from severe paranoid schizophrenia and a jury was tasked with deciding whether he was guilty of double murder or manslaughter. The trial heard he simply “could not accept” his marriage to Nelly Moustafa, with whom he has four children, was coming to an end.
The jury were also told the defendant, who had become a regular cocaine user, held 'unfounded' beliefs she had cheated on him with his own father as well as the landlord - the husband of Zahida Bi, both of whom lived next door.
Moustafa, who had appeared via video-link from a Birmingham hospital, will be sentenced on Friday, December 4
