Still in Cairo. Have spent a lot of time in 3 different police stations and a court trying to catch a man called Adel. After having stuff stolen before I decided to lock my valuables in my bag but this guy was cheeky enough to steal the whole bag including my passport, camera, money... and run away to Sudan on 6th may. Adel was staying in the same room as me in the hostel and when I went out in the evening he asked Muhamed the receptionist to get some food, so he did (he was drunk). Adel then ran away with his own bags and my bag and the photocopy of his passport locked in reception while Muhamed was kindly getting food for them to eat together. I came back about 2am (when curfew starts) to find my bag and Adel had disappeared, and Muhamed saying he had to go and help Adel because he was apparently in trouble. Muhamed returned at about 2:30 when me and mercury (Nigerian guy staying in the same room) were looking for my bag. At about 3am the three of us left to khan al khalili where Adel said he would meet Muhamed to return the bag after realising it contained my passport. We sat for about an hour and a half drinking tea by an ancient mosque half asleep waiting for Adel to show up, he kept contacting Muhamed saying he would meet us soon but never came. We realised he was just slowing us down so that he could get out of the country before we could find any of his ID and tell the police who to look for. So we returned to the hostel at about 5am and searched for his details but he had stolen those too. We went to sleep about 6:30am on the 7th and woke up about 9 to go to look again for any ID for Adel but still found nothing. I met Omar and friends at about 11 to go to the British embassy (which was closed) and the police station. We spent the whole day there and I thought after all the hours we spent there they would have made a report but it turns out they did nothing (my friends were speaking Arabic to them) so I had to spent the whole of the next day making a report for insurance. All they did was come to the hostel for 5 minutes to look for ID but found nothing. The next day I also tried to get adels ID from the Sudanese embassy but they can't give out this sensitive information and the police are powerless to get it from them after the revolution. However I met some nice guys from Sudan, one of which has a friend working in security for Sudan who says he can find Adel for me if we have his details and he is in Sudan. On the evening of the 8th Muhamed found adels full name and passport number on a piece of paper (you have to give ID to get an Egyptian sim card) in the bin in our room. So I took this to the police the next day but they refused to look for Adel, they only told me I had to wait two days untill I could add the information to the report. So I returned after two days and they tell me to go to the court at 9 the next morning to get permission to take a copy (for insurance) or even add to my report which I wrote. So the next morning I get permission from court to get the report from the police station and spent about 2 hours waiting with different officers making me walk up and down the stairs as much as possible so that the fat men could write notes to each other telling their colleagues to do the job because they are too lazy and won't talk to each other on the phone. Eventually they tell me to go to the same court I was at in the morning because I need extra permission, and then come back in 2 days. I tell them no and say I will tell my insurance company that the police would not cooperate with me, so they copied out the report for me by hand there and then and said sorry. They then said if I wanted to add any information to the report I would have to write out everything again with the extra details, I refused and said I would just write the new details, after a while they said that was fine. Adel told me he really wants to go to England, so if you see a bald 33 year old man walking around northleach pretending to be me and taking pictures with my camera, please tell him I want my stuff back.