LONDON, July 18 (Reuters) - Egyptian property tycoon Hisham Talaat Moustafa on Friday won a London court case against a former world kickboxing champion for the 2008 murder of Lebanese singer Suzanne Tamim.

An Egyptian court convicted Mustafa, CEO of Talaat Moustafa Group, of paying a former police officer to stab Suzanne, 30, to death inside her luxury apartment in Dubai.

He was initially sentenced to death in 2009, but the Court of Cassation overturned the verdict. After two further trials, he was re-convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison before being pardoned by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in 2017.

Suzanne gained fame after winning a television talent show in the 1990s, and was in a relationship with Iraqi-British kickboxer Riyad al-Azzawi before her murder.

Al-Azzawi filed a lawsuit against Mustafa at the London High Court in 2022, seeking compensation for the psychological and emotional harm he said he suffered as a result of Susan's murder.

Mustafa sought to have the case dismissed in Britain, arguing that Al-Azzawi's lawyers had not provided all the necessary evidence when they obtained permission to sue him. He also requested that the case be transferred to Dubai for trial instead of London.

In his ruling Friday dismissing the case, Judge Christopher Butcher said Al-Azzawi had failed to provide substantive information regarding whether the case was filed too late.

The judge added that "the Dubai courts are undoubtedly the most appropriate forum" to hear the case if Al-Azzawi insists on continuing with the lawsuit.

Talat Moustafa's lawyer in the UK has yet to comment, and Al-Azzawi's lawyer could not be reached for comment.

(Prepared by Mohamed Attia for the Arabic edition - Edited by Marwa Gharib)