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Two men have been found guilty of murdering a 71-year-old businesswoman in a £4.6 million scam to plunder her life savings.
Louise Kam, from Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, was strangled with a hairdryer cord and dumped in a wheelie bin after being lured to a three-bedroom house she owned in Barnet, north London, on July 26 2021.
Following a trial at the Old Bailey, chef Kusai Al-Jundi, 25, and delivery driver Mohamed El-Abboud, 28, were found guilty of her murder on Thursday.
The defendants sobbed in the dock after they were found guilty of murder.
Adjourning sentencing until February 1, Judge Mark Lucraft KC told them: “You have been convicted of the most brutal murder of Louise Kam. Not just satisfied with trying to defraud her of large sums of money, you left her in the rubbish to be taken away.”
Detective Chief Inspector Brian Howie, of the Metropolitan Police, said it was “despicable callous crime” driven by greed.
He said: “Two young men have preyed on an elderly lady in order to try and plunder her life savings, and then take ownership of her property before unceremoniously dumping her in a rubbish bin.
“It was all driven by greed. Louise had money, she had cars, she had property and she had a life that both of those people wanted. And the only way for them to get that, they saw, was to kill Louise and then to send heartless messages to her friends and family pretending that she had fled to China.”
Kami Rohany said: “I cannot find words that will express the grief I bear. My life without Louise does not have any meaning. I will end my days as a lonely and broken man.
“Louise loved and cared for so many. Her disabled eldest son has been left without a loving mother. So many miss her too.
“Time does not heal. Now and for the rest of our lives I and all who loved her will live knowing of the brutality she suffered, to her last breath, the disregard of her remains where no mercy was had.”
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