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Achmed Mohamed Awad arsonist and compulsive liar.
MOHAMED AWAD
GETTING THE PHARONIC HEAD OF A COFFIN INSPECTED FOR AUTHENTICITY ,
the grey hair in the photo belongs to Professor Strawinski from the polish dig above hatshepsut temple.
Close up of Mr Awad
sorry I do not have agood photo Jurgen ,this is Awads dealer from Germany. now part owner of my home.
Mohamed Awad who has picked up all his bad habits from his father &
mother, began his life in Saudi Arabia, on having to return to a life of poverty in Luxor
Egypt some 18 years Ago, was sent out to work on the ferry selling tissues to the
tourist and soon took over his mothers trade of selling hashish, and any other drug he
or she could lay their hands on including opium. Mohamed has an addiction of three
parts per day, he uses the excuse , its for his sinus problem, and also blames his parents
for bringing him here to Egypt and a life of poverty,
when I met him he was the nicest guy you could wish to meet especially since I was new to
Egypt and could not speak the language. and I took him as a friend and confidant, and my
taxi driver, that is all he was in the beginning, and I learnt about him and most important
he learnt about me. after 1 year, I was told that he had a big problem building his home,
that is when I thought I would help my new friend, but together with his family and his cousin
the lawyer, colluded together to get my money, I also found out the reason why they had to
leave Saudi, I was told by one of his friends ( he owes money to) that the father killed 2 women
under Shari law as they were prostitutes, and that Mohamed has had all the remainder of his fathers
money for his habit.
, that is why when I met him he was so poor, and I took pity on him and his family, In spite of our
great friendship together, with his family and his cousin the lawyer, colluded together to get my money
Wahid a friend of Mohamed , that is another he owed money too, told me that he was the one who
supplied the food the day we were invited to eat at Mohamed’s home. he told me exactly what we
ate, that was 3 years previous, and that he paid the remainder of the money owed on his Taxi
with the first £900 I gave him, ( right from the beginning Mohamed’s aim was to get my money)
after we built my home things began to change as did Mohamed, I gave him £60.000 sixty thousand
before we even opened the hotel. after we opened all the money we were making went to pay
builders etc, , he was
asking friends of mine that came to stay for money ( Mr Tony has a big money problem and does not
like to ask you for money),he even asked a long time friend of mine for £15.000.00
for the front part of my home saying that I had to sell to raise money to pay the builder,
this all came to light after I was forced out of my home.
on reporting Mohamed and his lawyer for taking my money falsely. As soon as Mohamed awads
name was mentioned, the police started quizzing me on the drugs trafficking and the artefacts
dealings to which they said they had been trying to catch him for several years. (the only problem
I thought Mohamed had was with the whisky)
Monday January 14.20011
3rd day after the downfall of the regime and now I can tell of the corruption that gripped this country like a vice.
I realized 9 months ago that I was caught up in the corruption. And the reason I went to See Sheikh Achmed Tyeb to get my home back, Mohamed has been caught up in police corruption for a long time and it’s the only reason he is still operating. What you do with this bad man, the police asked before they interrogated me. And now I can put my horror story back on line,
All a farce;- no on pissed here without the police knowing . How can they say they did not know what the German Jurgen Engels
Was doing; he was coming here for two weeks in six, for 20 years. This was a guy who once cleaned the floors in Mc Donalds, before he was made jobless, how could he afford to come for ¼ of the year to Egypt. Why was it after I reported Jurgen to the minister of antiques for taking things out of the country he was not arrested. Jurgen after the report took the piece in the photo to Germany.
And today He is half owner of my home,
Sunday, July 26, 2009. this is the date this story was first put on my blog before the security police told me to take it down! we make it bad for you, I was told,
Mohamed Achmed Awad:- the eldest son of the land owner Mohamed Awad
Achmed Awad:- another son who Made the fire on my roof to get me out.
Mustafa Atea:-. the Awad family lawyer. ; cousin to Mohamed a a
Hassan Atea:- the lawyer’s uncle head clerk in the court.
Hamdy Habashery:- Mohamed’s uncle
Mohamed Jamal:- member of parliament for Luxor district
Money exchange at the time was:- 12 Egyptian pound for 1 pound sterling.
Sisha :- a bubble pipe. Turkey they call it the hookah pipe.
(K)= one thousand sterling. (£) sterling pound
2004 ;-After we had made a decision on building my new home above the existing building, we discussed the habitable area and he said the animals will have to go so I can build my home there, and we came to an amicable agreement of five thousand sterling, I had been to see flats for this price from 5k to 15k. So we shook hands on the deal.
Feb 2004 To build on the top of the existing building I was originally told 5 k
I had £900 in cash I gave this to Mohamed and building work started I went back to the uk for 2 months and brought with me 5k in cash , on arrival at my new home I was surprised to see that all the tiling and floors, painting doors new cooker was done down stairs on the ground floor, so I asked why my place was not started , his answer was we make downstairs ready for you to stay. As it will save you money not renting , I said I already have a place to stay the answer was no Hamdy is a crook only wants your money and your flat is already rented to someone else, not wanting any problems and I now had a new home well at least a room to stay. So nothing was done about it under advice from my best friend Mohamed, I was there a couple of days and was told that they would be working on my room for water outlet etc and that I would be staying with a friend of his in the new villa by the Nile until the rooms where ready upstairs. And that it was bad for my health to stay in all the dust , so I stayed with Mohamed Anubi Nile villa until I went back home. The day before I went home I was informed that all the building material had gone expensive and the builders knew that I was building this home for you and they also have put their price up, and to finish my home it would cost another 10k so I went back to the uk to get more money, on arrival back my home had 2 rooms almost finished, and the price to stay in the villa had gone up to 2000egp per month as he had people who wanted to rent it so I stayed in the room down stairs until my room was ready, when I moved in my room Mohamed’s immediate family moved in the next room to mine, and we would stay up until all hours talking about this and that he would get whisky from whoever he could get scotch whisky from, and he could drink a bottle in an evening I drank mine with 7up as I could not keep up with the amount he drank the reason he told me was he wants to keep me happy and that his father did not allow him to drink downstairs. I like Glenfidech 10 year old whisky on special occasion’s . During our chats we discussed all manner of things including how much more we needed to finish my home. One evening Mohamed’s father The Imam as I was told , Mohamed would never make bad things for. It would be a great shame on him if he did anything wrong, he talked to Mohamed and I was told that if I am to spend any more money we will have to make a contract to say that this is my home.
I was going to tell him that anyway . And it was settled that a lawyer of my choice would come and make the said papers , on more drinking and talking I was told that there was a new lawyer in Gezira they did not know him but he is said to be good and he can also speak English. The following night Mohamed’s father Mohamed and the Lawyer called Mustafa Adea sat down and we all came to an agreement that I would own the land and the property that I was building until I passed away in the event of my sudden death the property would go to my wife, And as she would not need this property and on the event of my death with the insurances I had my children would not need this property so it would go back to the Awad family and we named the two children of Mohamed as benefactors. so all agreed that this was a good deed and that I was a very generous man, and how I change his life forever,
that was on July the 10th 04
On the days that followed we had more discussions and Mohamed wanted more money and asked if I would make this place into a hotel and restaurant, we had talked about this before of what I would have done if I bought the Sobic property.
And that I would at least be able to recover some of my money back .
So it was agreed between Mohamed and me, that I would run the hotel and he would run the taxi. And get tourists to stay and he would go around all the taxi drivers to bring people to the restaurant. And tell all his friends in the tour business about our new venture, but we need more money to do all this, he did not know exact but in the region of 30.000 all together with what I had already spent, then I went back to the uk after opening a joint account here, on arrival in the uk I deposited 5k in the aeb bank, when I came back to Luxor I gave Mohamed 20k from the sale of my bmw and workshop tools etc. unaccountable for, (cash) but he signed for the money as he did for all the money I gave him. Then I decided that if It was going to be a hotel I wanted good materials and things to finish the project and he said that this would be a lot more than the money I gave him
so another 10k was withdrawn from the bank. After all was finished. The man came to measure after the builders and this was another 5k, Mohamed started owing money so I said how much and we agreed that when he sold the car I would get it back £2,200 that he borrowed from Pam under the pretence that we had to pay for the license and beer license for the hotel.
My new hotel was open
We opened the business on January 2nd 05 we had nobody in the hotel the first week only a few people eating in the restaurant. So I made some pamphlets and business cards so Mohamed could take to all of his so called friends on the Monday we had the archaeologist Professor Strawinsky to view our hotel he liked it and asked if we could come to an agreement on full board for the week For 8 people who were on the new dig above Hatshepsut temple. The price was given at 900le per week and they moved in the same day, they stayed for 2 months. Very happy people. Then a fellow polish man came with his wife and daughter so I moved out of my room into the cleaners room this was a room of 9×9 with only a service hatch to get to the water and such , no air condition , I used the toilets and wash basin to the restaurant for washing etc. and had to buy a fan to cool the room down. But that was ok as the hotel was now in full swing,
during this time I had got 7 in my employ this was necessary to keep to the hotels regulations, according to Mohamed. so my wages bill was 2500le per month my meat bill was 4 thousand a month then I was paying for electric fruit and veg the total was 8.000.00 le per month the restaurant was becoming popular and I was still paying 4.000.00 a month out of my pocket . Then I had Mohamed making all the excuses in the world to give him money we had police eating and drinking in our restaurant every day, what he told me was they come because we do not have a license yet. (He was getting small money from them and putting it in his pocket) I made two birthday parties for 22 people for the Lawyer this I was told was for lawyer fees to prepare my papers.
After waiting for 13 months for my papers for the hotel and asking the lawyer for them I was informed to close the hotel & restaurant for one day, this was in the beginning of 2006,
The reason was that I was to make a dinner for 8 high court officials ( Judges) this part is of importance during the forthcoming court case)
I was told not to talk or look at them when they arrived. During the meal one of them went to the w c after which he washed his hands and had to walk past me to go back to the table.(I saw him) when they had gone Mustafa(lawyer) stayed behind and we had a sisha together with Mohamed Awad. And I was told ( I Quote ) you see now Mr. Tony we will have no problems getting the license for the hotel and beer ) once we get them you have to pay 25000Le–
Twenty five thousand this included the water purifier I was told Mohamed had to pay for the police station. After much asking for my papers 2 months later I was informed by Mustafa to meet him in the court house, to sign papers for my hotel, On arrival at the court house I was sat down in the front waiting room and was informed that we were waiting for an English translator to read the paper to me.
After 2 hours I was told he could not get a translator I asked what the paper was for —he said for the 2 licenses for the hotel and we need this paper to get the papers from the judge for my home ( inta bait) so I signed the paper. Then he told me to wait in the main area by the side road as it would be a while before he gets the papers signed After another hour he again informed me that he cannot get a translator and if the paper did not go to the judges office now it could be another 6 months before we get them, (after a 14 month wait I was only too willing to sign, and after all he was a lawyer)
One month after I received my papers Mohamed wanted more money for the builders? At this time I had been open for about one year with 6 staff and a gardener all Mohamed’s relations
( I was told I had to have this many staff as it was law if you have a hotel) I was paying all the bills including all the food that came into the hotel, my meat bill alone was 4500 a month
I was feeding the whole family including staff There were 10 living down stairs (immediate family) so I decided to close the hotel and just live and use it as my home as this was the original plan.
I went out that evening and on my return I went up on the roof to make a cup of tea and all the pots and things had been smashed up and it was a complete mess. I was standing on a chair trying to repair the fan when Mohamed returned with his dope friend Mohamed Unis + six police and Mustafa Lawyer. And I was accused of doing the damage.
Mustafa then told me to stay in my rooms ??? This I did not understand my rooms ??
I then went out for a sisha to calm down on return I was barred from entering the home so I stayed one night on one of the boats. The next day I went back to my home and was accosted by the father who physically stopped me entering the home and most of my belongings were strewn on the front garden. My computer, printer & photocopier were damaged,
I slept one night on one of the motor boats on the Nile and stayed in a friend’s home for a few days and a very worried Mustafa begged me to return to my home.
(Too early to get me out)
On my return Mohamed said sorry Mr. Tony but I have a very dark side and I should not have done it. But informed me that (I QUOTE) Now you have a black mark with the police if you make anymore trouble you will be thrown out of Egypt so you have to re-open the hotel.
On return to my rooms I found all my papers and my passport and a few items missing, I asked for them back The items where returned to me but I was told all my papers were with the Lawyer Mustafa. My receipts for items I had paid for were also missing including the receipts for the air conditioning washing machine and receipts for money I had given Mohamed
So I went down to his new office in Gezira to ask for the items to be returned to me. I was told they were in his other office but not to worry about my papers because there is another copy in the court.
I also asked for my receipts of the money transactions and was told he did not have these
I then asked him if he was related to Mohamed Awad –I even asked if he knew what related was– he said he was not related to Mohamed Awed,
So I asked if he would be my Lawyer and how much would it be to return my papers in English. I was told 500le and I paid him there and then. For 5 months I constantly asked him for my papers
six months later, I thought I would try to fix my scanner, the liquid had dried and it worked, inside the memory there was a copy of the papers that I was going to send to my wife. I took the copied papers to a friend; he asked what should be on the papers “I thought you owned the hotel”. I told him I did own the hotel— He informed me that these papers were for renting a flat— I told him that we must have someone else’s papers, — he said no. they were my papers as the address is on the stamp
I went back and confronted Mohamed about these papers, at which he said; nothing you can do; get out of my hotel.
I then closed the hotel rooms (the hotel is my apartment)
Then I went to the police and made a complaint about Mustafa making the false papers. They phoned Mustapha on his mobile. As soon as Mohamed Awad’s name was mentioned they put the phone down and started to interrogate me about Mohamed’s drug dealings and ancient artifacts’ dealing, And told what I knew which was very little, then they called for them to come to the office. I waited in the office until 2 in the morning and they phoned Mohamed again he said he was in Hurgada and would be there as soon as possible, ( strange as he was in the hotel when I left at 9.00 that evening) The next day at 3 in the afternoon Mohamed was in the garden talking to his police chief friend. I went back to the police station at 8 that evening again and asked if Mohamed had reported in, then they phoned Mustafa and Mohamed, they came to the station at 10.00. Mohamed agreed in front of the police that he had received £37.800.00 and would raise the money to repay me (I DID HAVE RECEIPTS FOR THAT AMOUNT) but not for the other 20 thousand sterling that I gave him in cash after I sold my car and workshop tools in the uk, and Mustafa would return the 500le I paid to translate the papers, No police REPORT
The next day Mustapha did not return my money and refused to have any contact with me. I then went back to the police station after realizing that they were in this together to fraudulently take my money and make false papers. I found out they were cousins so were related, After this and 4 days under arrest (in Jail) he tried to get me out of my home by turning off the water and the electric. I reported this to the police and nothing was done about the situation. no police report
While in the police station reporting the problem, Mohamed took all the food and all the kitchen utensils and gas bottles from the restaurant , I stayed there for three days my wife came from the uk to give me support, the second night we went to bed about 11.00 to be woken up by a lot of noise on floor above us as Sara Mohamed’s sister was getting married soon, we thought it was a party for her, so I went to ask them to keep the noise down only to find there was a fire on the roof , the next day we had to go to the police station and the court as Mohamed had made charges against me and my wife setting the fire, he got 2 witnesses to say we were drinking beer and smoking on the roof just before the fire, all this was proven false by the examiners, first my wife does not smoke and never drinks beer and I have-not had a cigarette for 20 years they also found the witnesses could not see us on the roof from where they were, all of the family by coincidence where out of the home apart from “Achmed” brother for Mohamed, and Mohamed was in the police station, and all had returned home by 12, we saw Achmed and his friend enter the hotel at 11.00 just before I went to bed we also heard the moving of chairs on the roof, for the next 2 days we were sleeping on the entrance floor as it was too hot to sleep in our room and decided that we have to move out as I feared for our safety,(who knows what they will get up to next) we stayed one night in the Horus hotel and 5 nights in the mercure inn until we found a flat in Baharwa. near Karnack temple , When we went to get our belongings we were refused entry into my home, we paid the transport fee 150le and had to pay another 100le that the transport police took off the driver for parking outside my home, on arrival back in Baharwa I saw Mohamed and his friend go into our new neighbours villa, then leaving, We went out to Luxor centre to have a meal and called in the grocer shop on the way home. Only to find a very unhappy neighbour and my landlady they asked who I had given my new address to and who where the people who threatened them, (Mohamed had followed the lorry back to find out where we lived) we told them a bit of what was happening, and the guy in the shop said his relative was the police chief in Cairo and that he could sort this problem out. 2 days later Zachariah (the police chief from Cairo) met with me and tried to help, only to be told by Mohamed Awad that he was being paid to help me, and said there was nothing he could do, but he said I should go and see Dr Sheik Ahmed Tyib, he said he would see him in Cairo and tell him what was happening.( That he did not do) I was also told by a friend to see the Imam, Sheik Machmood from the Mosque near the Luxor Temple. And he set up the meeting to see Sheik Tyib Wednesday 1/8/07. Mohamed even set it about that I paid Sheikh Machmood.
The fire case went in front of the court to which we were found not guilty.
After the court we where allowed to see the papers on the case Mohamed said in his statement about the fire that I had a right to live there and he accused us of making the fire because he saw us on the roof that night. He also states he was in Luxor from 6.00 pm until 11.30. He must have very good Eyesight maybe that’s why he wears glasses,
There are other cases against Mohamed and his family for refusing me entrance to the hotel And getting my belongings.
Looking at flats by Karnack temple
The view from the roof was direct into the Temple complex, but it was a shit hole on commenting on the condition of the said property I was informed that I would be paying £ 5000. so he can make it new for me and 200 leper month, so I said which planet are you from, after all the ( I can only call) shit that has happened since I came to Egypt I was at that point at bursting point, and walked out
My new flat was only about 200 yards from here, but I had to walk through a built up area that housed coffee shops grocers and the normal village only what I can call idiots, I stopped at one shop as I needed some food , and asked for some eggs and a chicken some yogurt I was quite versed in asking for things in Arabic, but being welsh and have a very strong welsh accent I have to say things two or three times for the locals to understand what I am asking for, but some go out of there way to make it hard, I can usually cope with this but on this day I was not in the mood for giving anybody a versed conversation in English never mind the few words that I understood him saying, all I wanted was some food, he wanted to know which hotel I was staying at my answer governed the dollar signs, he asked how long I was staying and where I was from, so I told him I was staying with his uncle Machmood, who thought I was a Martian with plenty of money, and that I was going to give him loads of money to buy an airship. This we where going to fly from the land that they had flattened to make room for the tourist buses just outside of his shop. Then he asked me for 120.00 le I told him to stick them where the sun does not shine. And walked the rest of the way back to my flat. Prices 4 yogurt 1.50 each. Pack frozen chicken wings 5 pieces 15.00, 6 eggs 3.00 total 24.00leso you see They are all from another planet or am I, I find it best to walk out rather than barter with them for things , by the time I would of brought him down to the real price the chicken would of gone off, and its much easier to catch a 25 pietas cheroot to Omar’s shop where all things have a price on them, watch the till in case they put extra things on there. And catch the cheroot back, that evening I had a telephone call from Machmood to meet Zachariah at 21.00 and to make sure I had some money with me on the way there I was met by Machmood who informed me that Zachariah wanted 1000 le for the work he had done so far . I said Ok, as I knew what our first agreement was after I move back in my home I pay 5%,
And started walking so I was grabbed by the arm, and he said no mister Tony You can not pay Zachariah in front of people that’s why I meet you first to take the money here, I said ok I will get money tomorrow , you do not have money in your home, I said no I have to go to the bank. Oyo promise to give me money tomorrow I said Aiwa bwkra. Meaning yes tomorrow. As long as it’s for Zachariah. He said ok no talk of money now ok, so as soon as I arrived at the cafe, I was informed by Zachariah that he could not do anything as Mohamed had threatened him saying that he was taking money from a tourist. And said you have met a bad one He cares about nothing only money , and I told him why he was not scared of the police as his friend is the police chief of the west bank and has been taking money from Mohamed ever since we open the hotel, I know this because Mohamed was on a desert trip, when the cop was going on holiday and wanted his money so I gave him his 1000le,
I gave Zachariah the guys description 3 pip fat guy with glasses a few weeks later this guy was out of the area.
Machmood really started to get up my nose, now here is this man who wants me to put my share in his business 30.000
I know an airship is more than 60.000. And he needed money to put his Daewoo car back on the road so asked me for 2000 le and would pay me back as soon as he gets his pay, he had all kinds of relatives coming out of the woodwork, for a sisha and tea , all seemed to have property for sale or rent, I have learnt never give a telephone number out unless its absolutely necessary, these people give the number to anybody that they think may be able to help you, so you get a phone call they hang up after 3 rings so you call them back , they never have money in their phone, and I was swamped with a***holes ringing up all hours especially at 2. or 3 in the morning, friend for Machmood; I have; that’s as far as the conversation went,
That evening I was told by Zachariah that the only one who can help me was Sheik Tyib who was a friend of his and he was the head of universities in Cairo, but once a month Held court here in his home at Ghurna. This village is on the west bank of the Nile.
He said he would see him in the next few days and explain my situation. I had a meeting with him and Sheik Machmood the Imam from the Mosque by Luxor Temple, I had met sheik Machmood 2 weeks before the meeting.
After my final meeting with Zachariah I went back to the flat I had to climb over a load of bricks and sand to get through the entrance door. Then when I got into my flat it was covered in dust. I opened the door to the garden and the balustrade on the steps had been broken by debris that had been thrown over the 4th floor balcony by the builders, I put up with a few weeks of this dust and dirt and climbing over building material to get to my flat. The American from the flat next door had moved out because of the mess.
When Pam came again (she was away for a month) and we had to go direct to the west bank as we had a meeting with The Sheik we picked up our translator Adel and headed off to the west bank to the meeting, now the court here is open anybody from the area or who is in the area can go there I suppose at one time it would have been held in open ground or any open area and every one would of sat on the ground, but here it was in a courtyard with rows of benches and one bench and a table where the Sheik came and sat down with an aid each side to him. Every one who was there said there hellos by going over and kissing his hand, when it came to our turn the sheik stood up to receive us and shook us by the hand and ordered us to sit at his side to hear why we where there , He told us both : are you prepared for me to be the judge on this It means if you are wrong you will lose all and the same for Mohamed Awad: we said we were and we will respect his decision on the matter and abide by the outcome. within half an hour Mohamed Awad was there with his brother , apparently the sheik had sent orders out for him to be there, I was asked to tell my version that had to be told through Adel, so it took some time, then Mohamed had his say, and Adel translated it for us . After hearing both versions the sheik got up and said that Mohamed’s story did not make sense , and that we had to come back the following night,
Next time we went it seemed all the men of the village were there Mohamed was sitting with his brother and his neighbors , when the Sheik came there was no formalities like the night before he called Pam & I to sit by his side And said he had made the decision that we are in the right and :what do we want; we discussed that seeing this was the family home we did not want to see his parents and the children on the streets so to speak, and that he should pay us the money that we can prove we gave him and handed him our bank statements that Pam had brought with her from the uk for our New solicitors, he asked how much and we told him £38.500.00
And that we can not prove the other £20.000.00, he asked how we would like to be paid we said now, then we went into the realism of it and the Sheik decided that he had to give us £6000. Now and the rest in instalments every 6 months for 3 years, when he called Mohamed over he agreed to the deal. And every one heard this they also heard Mohamed’s outburst of: – he is a Christian and why should I give him his money back:-, the Sheikh made no comment to me on this Just told him to go away and come back when the papers are ready to be signed,
we where then told our solicitor had to draw up papers that would be signed by Mohamed and the father the next night. We did all this the next night Only the father turned up, he said Mohamed was away on business, and he would make the arrangements asked if he took the money the answer was no, and he started ranting on about Mohamed had no right to discuss terms without him and wanted us to reconsider the agreement as I had lived in the hotel for a long time and that 30.000 was about the sum it should be at this the Sheik got angry and told him it was his decision not Mohamed’s to agree terms. And said they had to be back there the following Friday to sign the contract. The following Friday either turned up only Achmed with the excuse Mohamed could not come as his car had broken down in Hurgada and the father was in hospital in Cairo recovering from on op to his belly. So it was put off for the following Friday, this day no one turned up and the Sheik said he would write a report on his decision and hand it to the local court, so back to Square one that little charade cost us another 2000 le for our translator and solicitors fees, taxis etc.
P am cannot cope with dust and the second night she was back the builders where working and the dust was coming through the air condition unit, and she woke up in the night unable to breath , the next day we decided to move, so I went to see the owners upstairs , who said we have to live in the mess as , “well, we have builders in and what do you expect??
Now the father is told not to let us in
The last one is when the father attacked my wife with a farmers stick and then trying to protect my wife He hit me with the stick and broke my finger and I had to have the nail removed surgically
The father told lies to the police and we were put under arrest and had to spend 28 hours under police guard until it went to court, 2 months later we put in misdemeanour charge against Luxor district for hiding information. For protecting me and my wife I received 15 days jail the father got 1 month. The father claimed I kicked him in the testicles.
Since being out of my home it has cost almost £10000.00 lawyer and barrister fees ETC its months now and my wife cannot be here with me all the time as she has to look after her mum & dad in the uk and run the b&b just to keep me here while this case continues. Air fare is about £400 a time (3 times)
I did try and do this the Egyptian way by going to Sheik Dr Achmed Tyib
But Mohamed agreed that he had the money but refused to sign anything saying he was allowed to take this money off a Christian.
But Mohamed agreed that he took the money £37500 and agreed he would pay £6000 every 6 months but had no money to give right away and said he would pay the first instalment in 4 months, but then refused to sign anything we went back to the Sheik 3 times but Either Mohamed or the father had an excuse not to be there all the excuses he used where lies,
He left the 2ndnight refusing to sign anything saying he was allowed to take this money off a Christian. The father said he was in hospital in Cairo (no mention of any operation to the bowels in the police report on the beating case only a few weeks later) on the Friday of the last meeting Mohamed was In Hurgada paying a 6 month rent on the Seaways hotel. On the 23/11/07 I went back to see The Sheik as he said that he would send a report to the court on this matter, as soon as I asked him if he would just send a report to say that Mohamed agreed that he owed me the £37.500, he said that we have to go back to see his brother on the Tuesday at 19.30 to sort the problem and that it would be sorted out once and for all. With the Awad family. On the Tuesday no one turned up not even Sheik Mohamed, no apologies nothing,
I cannot find out what the reason for this was I thought as we were told in the beginning by Dr Sheik Tyib that we (both parties) had to agree with his findings whether we were right or wrong .
His findings were that Mohamed was wrong and falsely took my money I e gave me the wrong papers. We also agreed that if he decided that I was wrong I would say no more of the matter.
People here only believe what they hear they hear Mohamed agreeing to the paying back so ask why am I making Problems,
nobody (An Egyptian) walks away from Sheik Tyib, so I am in the wrong.
A lady called Mari- Pierre Prin now a friend and I will be putting her story on here soon, built a villa at a cost of 1.5 million Le she was warned by Mohamed that if she perused the matter they would tell every body she only came here for the young boys and would get one to say he was her lover. Marie is 64 and never had a lover here, on the orders of the lawyer. Mohamed bragged about this 12 months ago and how they beat up the guy who was security at the villa, then told me (I quote) you do anything against me I will fuck you too. His way of saying be quiet on our visit to se Sheik Tyib last night the taxi driver told us of Mustafa’s French boyfriend
First thing we had to do was take Mustafa’s name off the papers. I asked what papers, and was told the papers I signed in the court to make him my lawyer, I said that I did not sign for a Lawyer. So we went to the court house to release the papers then I find out that the paper I signed for the hotel was signing for Mustafa to be my lawyer. Then I went back to the same place with my translator (Adel) a to make papers to say that Shaib and his company where my lawyers. In the office before I signed I was asked if I knew what the paper said and Adel read it out to say I was making my new lawyer’s papers power of attorney,
On the first day of the case coming to court the Judge was the one I saw in my restaurant and I pulled him up about this and he said he had never been to my place so I thought I must have been mistaken.( but I do remember thinking at the time he does not look very Egyptian)
And today I still say he ate in my restaurant. I told my lawyer and he said its best not to mention it. But after all that’s been going wrong with my case I feel there is something going on, if not why would Mustafa ask these men to my place where I was told to pay the bill and why did they accept his offer of a free meal at my place. (Been told the Judge does not like me for asking if he enjoyed the meal at my home???)
Mustafa has already had one court case charge against him he got off on a technicality?? And I can almost guarantee that if we look into fraud papers concerning land or property on the West Bank Mustafa Adea’s name will pop up, two German men (Ok they where gay) built a Moroccan Style hotel only just finished, but the owner of the land took a photo of him talking to a young boy. Paid the boy to say he was intimate with them, they where deported now the original land owner owns the hotel, (his lawyer!! Mustafa Adea’s) this kind of thing is always going on here. And its why a lot of people just leave. Just like these people thought I would have given up by now and gone back to my homeland, Over 100 cases since the new laws of 2003 concerning buying property here in Egypt. ) most of these are here in Luxor on the west bank
For him to be so confident in doing these things he must be well in with some one in the prosecution office. My lawyer has a lot of these cases on his books but as he said to me now you see why it’s so difficult for us to win. After he read my story about the judges. He said I have to make a report for the high court in Cairo, Meaning the judges not disclosing my medical report for 6 weeks, just because it conflicted with the police report. And shows the police officer incompetent, his report says he could not find the stick and I did not have a camera to take photos.
A farmer with no stick, and no camera? When an hour earlier he took a statement off Achmed to say he took the sim card out of the camera and the card is at his home. I walked in the police station 20 minutes after the said offence and showed the camera to the police. The police surgeons report from Quena was on the judge’s desk 4 days after the examination of me and Pam’s injuries.
These reports have to be signed for and have on official seal on. I know because when I went back to the police surgeon in Quena , with a man from the court, to make a report on how my finger was healing, I came back with the sealed report and handed it to the post secretary at the court house he had to sign for it, I asked if he does this with all reports he said yes. I asked him if and when did he receive the report on the case number??? He said the date that was 4 days after I was put under arrest.
On going back to see the head judge on the misdemeanour case The man who brought the papers to the office, my Lawyer Shaib informed me was Mustafa lawyers uncle, no wonder Mustafa disappeared for six weeks when he was served with papers to retract the power of attorney papers,
this case is now been sorted, and Mohamed’s father has been found guilty. And waiting for sentence.
We have also been told that Mohamed And his Lawyer have been found Guilty of obtaining money under false pretences, the case for sentence is in May. I am still waiting to get the court to say I can go back to my home? Strange thing is they have never linked any of the cases.
Setting the roof on fire. We have to make another case against Mohamed for Lying. About where he was then we can make another case of him being the instigator to his brother making the fire.
Another 2 cases of his refusing to let me get my belongings from my home. and then breaking into my rooms and stealing them, Every thing in the ( we shall call it Hotel) I paid for so in law is mine,
Mohamed if you remember has stole all my papers . So he can turn around and prove that he is the owner as he has the receipts, the reason he stole them in the first place,
The case of the beating, the reason I went to the hotel , I ran the hotel for 2 years and I used to send customers to other hotels that I knew where clean etc, one of these was in Aswan. He phoned me up and said a Greek dr Mickeal that stayed with his family left an important bag in his room and could I take it to the station in Luxor so he can pick it up on his travel to Cairo on the 6.30 train. I informed him the hotel was closed and had been for a while as I had a problem, so these folks did not stay , only to phone me up an hour later, with a very Irate Dr explaining that he did stay at Myegypt told me the room number and the name of the owner , so Pam said we better go to see if its open, so under the instruction of the police, if you go there take a camera for evidence, that I did problem was his neighbour Hassan , Yes the one who got paid to say he saw me make the fire, owns a motor boat on the Nile, he phoned the hotel to say we were coming, hence the old man waiting with the stick,( Hassan Awad is one of the family)
After we left of course they knew I would go to the police. So they had to have some bruises or something when the police come to take statements,
so this is what I think happened After talking to the police surgeon whom I had lunch with on my last visit to Quena, ( he invited me and he paid)
The first report says
Achmed had bruises on both his legs and back . Caused by maybe the same piece that inflicted the injuries to Mr.and Mrs. Roberts. The severe bleeding that the police saw on the fathers face was caused by him picking an old wound on his nose. This wound was maybe 2/3 days old and caused by some thing sharp like a farmers crop cutting blade, and he had a slight bruise to his leg and groin, I asked if the wound on his belly was ok, because He had told Sheik Tyib that he was in Cairo recovering from an operation to his tummy.(See the letter to DR Sheikh Tyeb) I was told the only thing wrong with Mr. Awad is that he’s diabetic, and a very poor liar.
So my conclusion is they set about each other with the stick after we left, never in their statement to the police did they say I had a stick and beat Achmed with it, they made a report to the police that I went there to cause trouble , and that is why we were put under arrest for 28 hours,
The police were also supposed to of informed the British consulate we were under arrest, on either occasion did they do this , we were arrested on the fire charge too,
Today is 10/2/08
some of the references i.e. see this,, they were taken down on orders from the police, after I wrote to Dr Zahi Hawass,
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