LONDON—Two young men allegedly murdered a 71-year-old woman in London after coming up with a “careful and cunning plan” to trick her out of her life savings, a court in London heard on Thursday.
Kusai Al-Jundi, 24, and Mohammed El-Abboud, 28, both deny murdering Louise Kam, who was last seen alive on a CCTV camera, entering a house in Barnet, north London, on July 26, 2021.
Her son Greg contacted the police after he was unable to speak to his mother on the phone and became suspicious about text messages he received from her phone that said she was moving to China.
Opening the case on Tuesday, prosecutor Oliver Glasgow, KC, said: “Little did those closest to her realise that when they were replying to those messages, Louise Kam was already dead. She had been strangled, her body dumped unceremoniously in a rubbish bin, and a plan was afoot to conceal her murder and plunder her life savings.”…