Two killers who occupied a millionairess’s £1.3m dwelling and strangled her to loss of life when she refused to promote it to them are going through life sentences after being discovered responsible of homicide on the Outdated Bailey right this moment.
Syrian cook dinner Kusai Al-Jundi, 25, and his Romanian supply driver Mohammed El-Abboud, 28, slayed Louise Kam, 71, inside her north London dwelling on July 26 2021, after their scheme to grab her £4.6m fortune went south.
Al-Jundi, branded a ‘Walter Mitty’ kind character at trial and El-Abboud, described as a ‘homeless gypsy boy’, callously dumped the lady’s physique in a wheelie bin earlier than texting her household from her telephone to inform them she had ‘gone to China’.
Ringleader Al-Jundi, who pretended to stay a luxurious life-style with a string of girlfriends, however who truly labored in a kebab store and lived along with his mother and father, had tricked Mrs Kam into signing a doc to provide him energy of lawyer.
Syrian cook dinner Kusai Al-Jundi (pictured left), 25, and his Romanian supply driver Mohammed El-Abboud, 28, slayed Louise Kam, 71, inside her north London dwelling on July 26 2021, after their scheme to rob her of her £4.6m fortune went south
Mrs Kam had pushed her BMW to her four-bedroom semi-detached dwelling on Gallants Farm Street, East Barnet, pondering a lawyer could be there to finalise the sale of the property. Nonetheless she was murdered when she refused to signal the property over
The married father-of-three probably believed that with Mrs Kam lifeless, he would have the ability to signal over all of her wealth, together with two properties, to himself, the courtroom was instructed.
One the day of her homicide, Mrs Kam had pushed her BMW to her four-bedroom semi-detached dwelling on Gallants Farm Street, East Barnet, pondering a lawyer could be there to finalise the sale of the property, after Al-Jundi satisfied her he had sufficient money to purchase the home.
However as she sat in a chair the killers approached her from behind to strangle her with the flex of a hairdryer belonging to El-Abboud – who had arrived to the nation with no work visa simply two months earlier.
She was additionally hit over the top with a blunt object earlier than her physique was wrapped in bin luggage and a quilt and bundled into the bin outdoors her dwelling the place it was lined with backyard waste.
On the morning after Mrs Kam’s loss of life, Al-Jundi paid £60 every to a bunch of workmen to convey a van to maneuver the bin to his household’s dwelling on Wooden Finish Street, in Harrow, northwest London. He despatched messages to Mrs Kam’s family and friends pretending she was alive and effectively however had gone away.
In the meantime El-Abboud posted a TikTok video of himself gyrating and dancing to music on the driveway of Mrs Kam’s property, along with his followers blissfully unaware he had brutally murdered her simply hours earlier.
On the afternoon they killed her, El-Abboud marketed Ms Kam’s black BMW 3 Collection convertible on his Fb account and offered it to an unsuspecting purchaser, pretending it was his personal automobile.
Mohamed El-Abboud in a video bragging about Mrs Kam’s home and giving a tour after he moved in
El-Abboud posted movies onto his TikTok account from inside the home of Mrs Kam each earlier than and after her homicide
Photograph issued by the Metropolitan police of the wheelie bin the place the physique of Louise Kam was discovered
The courtroom heard Al-Jundi was a ‘Walter Mitty’ character who bragged that he was a millionaire with a string of lovely girlfriends.
The truth is, he was a penniless cook dinner working on the Yasmeen Shamin kebab home in Willesden Excessive Street with a spouse and three kids.
However he conned ladies to try to attain the life-style he thought he deserved and had stolen two vehicles from one sufferer in her sixties after declaring his timeless love for her.
Al-Jundi instructed Mrs Kam he cherished her too, hoping she would signal her property portfolio over to him.
He and his good friend El-Abboud, described in courtroom as a ‘homeless gypsy boy’, killed her when she refused. They denied homicide, however Al-Jundi has by no means provided any explanations for his actions.
El-Abboud blamed him and claimed he was truly asleep when the chef killed Mrs Kam.
The jury convicted them each of homicide after a two month trial and so they now face life sentences on a date to be mounted.
Mrs Kam was a divorcee who had a enterprise premises and a block of flats close to Al-Jundi’s restaurant.
She owned these properties outright however had a mortgage on the home at in Barnet and lived in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire.
Mrs Kam wished to promote the properties to provide cash to her kids and Al-Jundi provided her £6 million, far above the market worth.
He instructed her his backer was a girlfriend girl known as ‘Anna’ and Mrs Kam was even despatched voice-note messages purportedly coming from her.
‘Anna’ was Anna Reich – a restaurant buyer who had already been a sufferer of Kusai Al-Jundi’s dishonesty.
She agreed to promote him her two vehicles, a Toyota Rav 4 and an Audi TT for £57,000.
Though the vehicles have been handed over, Mrs Reich by no means noticed a penny of the cash.
Al-Jundi despatched her messages telling her: ‘I really like you, I would like you. Anna, nobody else is inside my coronary heart. I really like you as a result of I would like you, sure I want you, each time I want you.’
Mrs Reich mentioned: ‘He has been psychologically manipulating me all this time.
‘My intention was to get the cash for the automobile and get out of that scenario as shortly as attainable.
‘He by no means paid me a penny, not even a penny…no money or switch, nothing. He was very inventive.’
Al-Jundi wished Mrs Reich to be a stooge to assist him con Mrs Kam, however she refused when he requested her to come back to conferences to behave as an ‘interpreter.’
Considering he was going to purchase the home, Mrs Kam had given Al Jundi the keys and he allowed his confederate El-Abboud to maneuver in.
The courtroom heard El-Abboud was dazzled by Al-Jundi, who promised him a fortune and gave him Mrs Reich’s Audi TT.
El-Abboud had been within the nation a few months and had no proper to work however had discovered employment at a Deliveroo rider and a warehouse employee at Disney in Coventry.
Mohammed El-Abboud, 28, described as a ‘homeless gypsy boy’, helped homicide tragic millionairess Louise Kam, 71
This Audi TT was stolen from one other girl by the 2 males, El-Abboud and Al-Jundi, who strangled Louise Kam and dumped her physique in a bin, it’s alleged
Within the Midlands he met Romanian nationwide and part-time mannequin Maria Amariucai, who would pose within the bragging TikTok movies El-Abboud made at Mrs Kam’s home and was a key witness within the case.
She grew to become Al-Jundi’s girlfriend and was on the home in Barnet when Mrs Kam arrived, pondering Al-Jundi and El-Abboud have been about to make her a really rich girl.
However prosecutor Oliver Glasgow instructed the courtroom: ‘Louise Kam was the sufferer of a cautious and crafty plan by Kusai Al-Jundi to defraud her.
‘When that plan didn’t work out as deliberate, he and Mohamed El-Abboud killed her.
‘The 2 of them then set about making an attempt to cowl up her homicide and probably they assumed they’d have the ability to revenue in a roundabout way from her loss of life.
‘It doesn’t matter who overpowered her, who wrapped the flex round her neck, or who bundled her lifeless corpse into the bin.
‘What issues is that the 2 of them did this collectively and that every supported the opposite within the plan to kill her, to get rid of her physique and to attempt to revenue from her loss of life.’
Ringleader Al-Jundi, who pretended to stay a luxurious life-style with a string of girlfriends, however who truly labored in a kebab store (pictured) and lived along with his mother and father, had tricked Mrs Kam into signing a doc to provide him energy of lawyer
Al-Jundi had tricked Mrs Kam into signing an influence of lawyer doc and possibly believed that if she was lifeless he would personal her properties.
After the killing, Al-Jundi celebrated by taking Ms Amariucai to a jeweller on Willesden Excessive Street and shopping for her a pair of earrings for £580.
Mr Glasgow mentioned this was ‘a beneficiant present for somebody who had no cash, however he little question believed that, with Louise Kam lifeless and armed with a signed energy of lawyer, he was in possession of two invaluable properties.
‘It could appear that he was celebrating, however the purchasing journey had a twin goal.
‘Not solely was he treating his girlfriend to items that may impress her, however this should have been a really public try to supply an alibi.’
Later that day El-Abboud drove Ms Amariucai again to Coventry and confessed to being the one who had strangled her to loss of life.
‘He mentioned he may probably not consider that he had killed that girl,’ Ms Amariucai instructed the jury.
‘He instructed me it was to do with a enterprise settlement between the Chinese language girl and Kusai. He mentioned he (El-Abboud) had taken her from behind.
‘He mentioned Kusia instructed him to kill the Chinese language girl. Kusai was going to provide him a share of the cash.’
As her frantic household looked for Mrs Kam, Al-Jundi despatched them messages from her telephone pretending she had ‘gone to China.’
‘Little did these closest to her realise that after they have been replying to these messages, Louise Kam was already lifeless,’ Mr Glasgow mentioned.
‘He even had the audacity to assert that she had deceived him and that she had left the nation taking his cash along with her.’
Three days after the homicide, police discovered Mrs Kam’s physique on the home in Wooden Finish Street, Harrow, the place Al-Jundi was dwelling along with his mum and pa.
‘Upon nearer inspection the police may see the define of a shoe wrapped in plastic, which was in flip wrapped in a quilt cowl,’ Mr Glasgow mentioned.
‘It grew to become clear there have been human stays contained in the bin.
‘Her head had been wrapped in three black plastic luggage. Her physique had been wrapped in a quilt and her toes and decrease legs had been wrapped in two black plastic luggage and taped up.’
A pathologist discovered Mrs Kam had suffered a number of bruising, a fractured backbone and blunt influence to the top throughout a wrestle or collapse.
Al-Jundi, of Harrow, and El-Abboud, whose final handle was Gallants Farm Street, Barnet, each denied Ms Kam’s homicide however have been convicted.
They are going to be sentenced on February 1 however the Recorder of London, Choose Mark Lucraft mentioned of the sufferer: ‘She was brutally murdered and left to be taken away within the garbage.’