Mystery surrounds the death of the renowned Arab cinema star Suad Hosni and the last few hours before her fall from the window on the sixth floor of a residential building in the heart of London.
The Arab screen Cinderella was seeking treatment in the British capital for a broken spinal column.
Scotland Yard officials are gathering information about the accident before proceeding further. Meanwhile, London police are waiting for the forensics report to decide whether to proceed with more investigations.
Pending the forensics report and the completion of legal release procedures, Hosni’s body is being held at Westminster Hospital in the same neighborhood that witnessed her death last Thursday evening.
A source at Scotland Yard said that the body of the artist was transported to the hospital to perform the necessary tests to determine the cause of death and rule out criminal motives.
“Nobody recognized the body’s identity from the time Hosni fell from the window until her corpse was moved to the hospital,” the Cairo-based Al Ahram daily said.
The body was at first said to be that of a man, but it was discovered to be a woman’s body afterwards, the daily added.
A number of Arabs and Egyptians live in the building where the death occurred, and some of them own flats there.
PRIVATE DOCTOR’S STORY
Dr. Wafiq Mustafa, one of the Egyptian doctors who treated Suad Hosni in London, expressed his deep sadness over the difficult last few months in the life of the star. “Physical and mental illness plagued the artist to the extent that her doctors did not know exactly the proper medical solution to alleviate her severe pain,” the doctor said.
Mustafa added that the late artist’s recent inability to perform was more painful to her friends. Hosni could not hide her torment because of the advanced stage of her disease, and so lost her will to resistance, the doctor said.
DEEP DEPRESSION
Doctors call this “deep depression,” which may have led the star refuse any invitation for a meeting or social gathering that would involve her with life and people.
The long journey for treatment, which took Hosni to France and Britain, far away from Egypt during most of the 1990s, began with suffering and ended with pain and depression in London.
The late star suffered a prolapsed disc in her spinal column, which led to compression on her nerves and back and foot pain. The case developed into facial paralysis, weight gain and a change in profile which affected Hosni’s mental state and exposed her to a series of acute depression attacks which made her fear returning to Cairo. She did not want anybody to see her and preferred loneliness.
The late artist continued to receive treatment in London at the expense of the Egyptian government for nearly two years. But early last year, the Egyptian government suspended the treatment at its own expense after officials decided that physiotherapy treatment in Egypt would be enough to improve the case. However, the star continued to resist the idea of returning home.
An Egyptian medical consultant in Britain, Dr. Adel Yousef, said that the Egyptian authorities had done their best to alleviate the suffering of the late star.
Yousef noted that Hosni’s treatment in London cost 85,000 pounds, adding that the Egyptian medical office in London had been entrusted with the task of receiving the body from the mortuary after the British police released it. The office will transport the body to Heathrow Airport on its way home
Before her death, Hosni underwent back surgery in France, but her health condition did not improve – Albawaba.com
