Alexandria Court Acquits Defendant in Engineer’s Killing, Orders Lifetime Psychiatric Hospital Placement

The Alexandria Criminal Court has acquitted a defendant in the killing of an engineer and ordered his placement in a psychiatric hospital for life.

The ruling was issued by a panel headed by presiding judge Abdel Rahman Hafez.

Judges Tarek El-Serafy, Sherif Gabr and Omar Selim also sat on the panel that heard the case.

The brief account of the verdict did not identify the defendant or the engineer. It also gave no details of the circumstances of the killing or the court’s legal and medical grounds for its decision.