{"id":16783,"date":"2019-04-29T22:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=16783"},"modified":"2019-04-29T22:02:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T20:02:28","slug":"6-teenage-girls-have-admitted-attacking-an-egyptian-engineering-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=16783","title":{"rendered":"6 teenage girls\u00a0have admitted attacking an Egyptian engineering student"},"content":{"rendered":"

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6 teenagers had been charged with the offence of affray but three had denied the charge in October and were due to stand trial last week. The 18-year-old suffered a stroke 10 hours after the 20 February incident and died almost a month later. But Mariah Fraser, 19, Britania Hunter, 18, and a 16-year-old girl, admitted their part in the attack earlier this month at a hearing before Judge Gregory Dickinson QC on 16 April.<\/p>\n

Three other teenage girls, two aged 17 and one aged 18 had admitted affray at Nottingham Youth Court last year. The case can be reported today after restrictions were lifted by District Judge Timothy Spruce.<\/p>\n

The father of\u00a0the student has claimed authorities showed him \u201cno respect\u201d by not informing him of the recent court hearing in which three girls admitted attacking his daughter.<\/p>\n

Mohamed Moustafa described\u00a0it as \u201canother failure in the case of our daughter\u201d and the family\u2019s legal representative said an official complaint has been made to authorities.<\/p>\n

Mr Moustafa, 51, said: \u201cWe were not informed or advised in any way, shape, or form that there was a hearing on that day. As a family we are entitled to know everything regarding our daughter’s case beforehand and not after … This very simple right was taken from us.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThis is not the first mistake. A lot of mistakes happened with\u00a0Mariam\u00a0from the very first day and now it is just normal. Mistakes, mistakes, mistakes with\u00a0Mariam. I believe it is not fair at all \u2013 because it is my daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 18-year-old, who Mr\u00a0Moustafa\u00a0described as \u201cvery kind\u201d and \u201clike an angel\u201d, was punched several times during a confrontation with a group of women near a bus stop in Parliament Street, Nottingham, around\u00a08pm\u00a0on the night of the attack.<\/p>\n

The teenager got on a bus at the scene near the Victoria Centre shopping precinct but was followed by the same group, who it is claimed were threatening and abusive towards her.<\/p>\n

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Mohamed\u00a0Moustafa\u00a0and\u00a0Nessrin\u00a0Abu-Elenein, parents of\u00a0Mariam\u00a0Moustafa\u00a0at their home in Nottingham (PA)<\/em><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She was taken to the Queen\u2019s Medical Centre in the city and then transferred to Nottingham City Hospital where she was treated until her death.<\/p>\n

The attack caused uproar in Egypt and the country\u2019s embassy had called on those responsible to be \u201cbrought to justice swiftly\u201d.<\/p>\n

After the final guilty pleas were entered, the teenager\u2019s family also expressed their anger at the level of charges the six defendants faced. Mr Moustafa described the affray charge as \u201cvery weak\u201d – insisting there was \u201cstrong evidence\u201d the defendants should have been tried on more serious charges.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cWe are very disappointed with the charges pressed against the defendants. It was not and is not what we expected. It\u2019s unfair and unjust to charge those whom killed or, at least by their actions, led to [Mariam\u2019s] death with such minor offences.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is very weak. It is not fair at all. From the first day I was very upset about the charge. Affray \u2013 it\u2019s nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Crown Prosecution Service spokesman said: \u201cWe have worked closely with the police to make sure Mr Moustafa has been kept updated throughout this process and are deeply sorry this didn’t happen on this particular occasion. We have contacted him to offer a full explanation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were preparing for trial in this case, two of the three guilty pleas were unexpected and we informed the family immediately. We have also met with Mr Moustafa to explain the charge of affray, the CPS can only charge if the evidential stage of our tests for prosecution are met. Our thoughts remain with her family.\u201d<\/p>\n

The six teenagers will be sentenced on a date yet to be fixed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

6 teenagers had been charged with the offence of affray but three had denied the charge in October and were due to stand trial last week. The 18-year-old suffered a stroke 10 hours after the 20 February incident and died almost a month later. But Mariah Fraser, 19, Britania Hunter, 18, and a 16-year-old girl, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[388],"tags":[8806,4179,8808,5483,6818,8807,2362],"class_list":["post-16783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slide","tag-6-teenage","tag-an-egyptian","tag-attacking","tag-engineering","tag-girls","tag-have-admitted","tag-student"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16787,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16783\/revisions\/16787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}