STALKER DEATH SENTENCE: Court Orders Execution For Man Who Stabbed Student Who Refused To Marry Him

Egypt’s highest court has confirmed the death sentence of a convicted killer who stabbed his university classmate to death after she snubbed his marriage proposal.

Naira Ashraf, an Egyptian student, was killed by a man in front of Mansoura University in Mansoura, Egypt, on 20th June 2022. (CEN)

Harrowing footage shows how evil Mohamed Adel attacked victim Naira Ashraf as she got off a bus outside Mansoura University to sit her finals on 20th June 2022.

Adel, then 21, can be seen punching Naira in the head before jumping on her and stabbing her in the neck again and again as she falls to the ground.

He was seized by angry passersby after fatally slitting Naira’s throat.

It later emerged that Adel had been stalking his victim and had decided to kill her after she turned down his marriage proposal.

Mansoura Courthouse preliminarily sentenced him to death on 28th June, confirming the punishment on 6th July.

But his lawyer, Khaled Al-Bari, submitted a lengthy appeal, claiming that his client suffers from a serious mental illness in a desperate bid to get him a lesser sentence.

Shamelessly, he also claimed, Naira and her family were responsible for his mental state at the time.

A man allegedly killed Naira Ashraf, an Egyptian student, in front of Mansoura University in Mansoura, Egypt, on 20th June 2022. (CEN)

But his efforts were in vain, as Egypt’s Court of Cassation upheld Adel’s death sentence on 9th February.

The lawyer representing Naira’s family, Khaled Abdel Rahman, told local media he would submit a request to officials for the execution to be broadcast live.

He believes such a move would give the family closure and act as a deterrent against similar crimes.

The request echoes an earlier plea by an Egyptian court, which, in July, asked lawmakers for Adel’s killing to be aired.

In its letter to the Egyptian parliament, the court wrote: “The broadcast, even if only part of the start of proceedings, could achieve the goal of deterrence, which was not achieved by broadcasting the sentencing itself.”