Ahmed Ghali

Ahmed Ghali is a non-canonical character created for ITV's 2006 adaptation of the novel The Sittaford Mystery. He is the Egyptian servant of Clive Trevelyan at Sittaford House. He has a greater relevance to the plot which is only revealed during the denouement.

As Miss Marple's investigation and the revelations of Miss Elizabeth Percehouse showed, some 25 years before the events at Sittaford, in 1927, Clive Trevelyan had collorated with an archaeologist Arthur Hopkins in exploring a Zekhen (pre-dynastic) tomb in Egypt. Thereafter, Hopkins had disappeared. More than 20 years later, 3 years before the main events in the show, the Zekhen tomb was excavated and Hopkin's dead body was found inside. The artefacts inside had also been looted. Elizabeth, who was Hopkin's wife, travelled to Egypt to investigate the circumstances of her husband's death. In Egypt she met Ahmed Ghali. They both concluded that Clive Trevelyan had killed Hopkins and conspired to kill Clive as retribution. Ahmed came to England to work as Clive's servant as part of this plan.

During the show, Ahmed arranged for a box of Turkish delight to be delivered to Sittaford House, ostensibly by the Woman's Institute in Exhampton. Ahmed had poisoned the sweets in the box, knowning that they were Clive's favourite. At the same time, Ahmed had disconnected the phone line from Sittaford House to prevent help from being summoned. This attempt on Clive failed because Clive had left Sittaford House for the day and did not come back at dinnertime. The other people at the house such as Miss Marple and Emily Trefusis might have been poisoned. Fortunately, John Enderby had fed a piece to his pet Hawk Harry and he died immediately, and warning the others that the Turkish Delight was deadly.

Enderby accused Ahmed of following Clive to the The Three Crowns hotel and killing him there but Miss Marple exonerated him because she knew from their interaction that Ahmed did not know that Clive had gone there to spend the night. Elizabeth was at the hotel and had spotted Clive there. She tried to call Ahmed at Sittaford House to tell him but Ahmed had disconnected the phone line.

Ahmad's backstory is not given in the show and it is not stated what he was doing in Egypt, how he met Elizabeth Percehouse and why he joined her to help go after Clive.

Ahmad Ghali is portrayed by Jeffery Kissoon.