A 39-year-old Egyptian woman tortured her little son to death for nearly three hours then stuffed the body in a plastic bag and went by bus to a remote area to get rid of it.
When her husband returned home from work, she told him their nine-year-old son went to the shop and had not turned up, newspapers said.
But the suspicious father reported his son’s absence to the police, who later found the body buried in a farming area outside the capital Cairo.
During interrogation, the woman was confused and made contradicting statements before she confessed to killing her son for disobeying her, the papers said.