WEALTH WITHHELD
COURTS’ DECISION MADAME FAHMY NOT TO INHERIT. CAIRO, April 15. Madame Fahmy, the beautiful Frenchwoman, to-day lost her appeal against the judgment of the Egyptian courts disallowing her claim to inherit the estate of her former husband, Ali Kernel Fahmy. Madame Fahmy was acquitted at the Old Bailey in 1923, after a sensational five days’ trial, on a charge of murdering her husband in a West End hotel. The defence was that she had been mentally tortured beyond control and that she shot him believing her own life to bo in danger. The Egyptian courts hold, however, that a woman who had killed her husband could not inherit his estate, against which decision Madame Fahmy appealed; and she also contested the competence of the Supreme Religious Court to adjudicate in the action. Ali Kernel Fahmy was reputed to be one of the wealthiest young men in Egypt.
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Evening Star, Issue 20506, 10 June 1930, Page 9
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149WEALTH WITHHELD Evening Star, Issue 20506, 10 June 1930, Page 9
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