{An Egyptian court Thursday sentenced to death 10 men for killing a security guard for one of the judges hearing a case against ousted president Mohamed Morsy, an official said.}
Sergeant Abdallah Metwally was part of a team of policemen guarding the home of judge Hussein Kandil, when he was gunned down in February 2014 in the city of Mansoura north of Cairo.
At the time, Justice Kandil was the presiding judge in Morsy’s trial for escaping from jail during the 2011 uprising that ousted longtime president Hosni Mubarak.
In May, Morsy and more than 100 co-defendants were sentenced to death in that trial for plotting jailbreaks and attacks on police.
The 10 men sentenced to death on Thursday were among 24 tried in a court in Mansoura in connection with Sgt Metwally’s murder, the official said.
Verdicts against the 14 others will be announced in September.
Agencies
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