Femicide: Senior Egyptian judge allegedly kills his second wife, TV host Shaimaa Gamal

In yet another act of femicide, a senior Egyptian judge allegedly murdered his wife, 42-year-old TV host Shaimaa Gamal, before he burned her face using a chemical acid to hide her identity and buried her on his farm in a remote area, local media outlets reported.

Earlier this month, the suspected judge, Ayman Hagag, who holds the position of a vice president of the state council, reported his wife missing after she had been seen last with him at a mall in Giza province, southwest of the capital Cairo, about three weeks ago.

The circumstances behind her disappearance and death were revealed after an alleged accomplice came forward and reported to the authorities the whereabouts of Gamal's buried body, according to the news reports.

The man in question said that Gamal was the judge's second wife whom he married in secret without his first wife knowing, the reports added.

The motive behind the crime remains unclear, but some media outlets reported that Gamal threatened the husband that she would inform his first wife of their secret marriage.   

The autopsy report revealed that she was killed by a blunt force trauma to the head by being hit hard by a magazine of a gun, the reports said.

The prosecution general has ordered the detention of the husband after his legal immunity as a judge had been lifted, while the accomplice has been kept in custody, pending further investigations into his involvement in the murder.

It remains unclear whether Hagag has yet been arrested or not.

The news of the TV hostess' murder sparked the outrage of social media activists, especially after last week's femicide of Naira Ashraf, a 21-year-old student, stabbed to death outside Mansoura University campus by an obsessed lover whom she repeatedly rejected to marry.