Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour

Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour File:Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour.jpg Full Name: Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour Alias: al-Tourbini The Express Train Killer The Gharbia Killer Origin: Tanta, Gharbia, Egypt Occupation: Street gang leader Crimes: Serial murder Rape Torture Type of Villain: Serial Killer

Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour (Arabic: رمضان عبدالرحيم منصور‎; c. 1980 – 2010), also known as "al-Tourbini", was an Egyptian street gang leader and serial killer who raped and murdered at least 32 children over the course of seven years, throughout several locations in Egypt including Cairo, Alexandria, Qalyoubeya and Beni Sueif. All of his victims were 10 to 14 years old, most of them boys. Mansour was arrested in 2006 along with his six accomplices, and subsequently sentenced to death.

Biography

Mansour left his home in Tanta, a town north of Cairo, and joined a street gang at an early age. Gang leaders taught him skills of survival, allegedly cutting him with razors when he made any mistakes. According to his confession, Mansour soon learned the method of getting back at those who crossed him by raping them, and murdered anyone who threatened to go to the police afterwards.

One of the victims, 12-year-old boy Ahmed Nagui, had been a member of Mansour's gang. When Mansour tried to sexually assault him, Nagui reported him to the police, and Mansour was arrested but was released for lack of evidence. Soon after Mansour raped and murdered Nagui in retaliation, according to the prosecutors.

Mansour frequently traveled between Cairo and Alexandria by train. He felt safer in Alexandria because it had fewer police officers. The Vice Department of Borg El-Arab police station in Alexandria started keeping a profile on him during this time.

Mansour and his gang members lured street children onto the carriage roof of the trains, where they then stripped, raped and tortured them, and tossed them naked onto the trackside, dead or barely alive. Some of the children were dumped into the Nile, or buried alive.

Mansour and his gang's crimes came to light in 2006 when two of his gang members were arrested, and Mansour acquired the nickname "al-Tourbini" meaning "Express Train", from his favorite location for the crimes. After the arrest, Mansour reportedly told prosecutors that he was possessed by a female jinn who commanded him to commit the crimes. Mansour, along with his accomplice Farag Samir Mahmoud, also known as "Hanata", were convicted and sentenced to death by the criminal court in Tanta in 2007. Mansour and Mahmoud were both executed by hanging on Thursday, December 16, 2010.