LONDON—An aspiring model has told a murder trial her friend confessed to murdering an elderly Chinese woman durng a car journey from London to Coventry.
Maria Amariucai, a Romanian national who had come to London the day before to meet a photographer about a possible modelling job, said she struggled to believe Mohammed El-Abboud’s confession because he had always been a “sweet guy.”
The prosecution claims Kusai Al-Jundi came up with a “careful and cunning plan” to trick Louise Kam, 71, out of two properties she owned, but ended up killing her.
Al-Jundi, 24, and El-Abboud, 28, deny murdering Kam, who was last seen alive on a CCTV camera entering a house in Barnet, north London, on July 26, 2021….