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Two killers who occupied a millionairess's £1.3m home and strangled her to death when she refused to sell it to them are facing life sentences after being found guilty of murder at the Old Bailey today. 

Syrian cook Kusai Al-Jundi, 28, and his Romanian delivery driver Mohammed El-Abboud, 24, slayed Louise Kam, 71, inside her north London home on July 26 2021, after their scheme to rob her of her £4.6m fortune went south. 

Al-Jundi, branded a 'Walter Mitty' type character at trial and El-Abboud, described as a 'homeless gypsy boy', callously dumped the woman's body in a wheelie bin before texting her family from her phone to tell them she had 'gone to China'. 

Ringleader Al-Jundi, who pretended to live a luxury lifestyle with a string of girlfriends, but who actually worked in a kebab shop and lived with his parents, had tricked Mrs Kam into signing a document to give him power of attorney. 

The married father-of-three likely believed that with Mrs Kam dead, he would be able to sign all of her wealth, including two properties, over to himself, the court was told. 

One the day of her murder, Mrs Kam had driven her BMW to her four-bedroom semi-detached home on Gallants Farm Road, East Barnet, thinking a lawyer would be there to finalise the sale of the property, after Al-Jundi convinced her he had enough cash to buy the house. 

But 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 country without a work visa just two months earlier. 

She was also hit over the head with a blunt object before her body was wrapped in bin bags and a duvet and bundled into the bin outside her home where it was covered with garden waste.

On the morning after Mrs Kam's death, Al-Jundi paid £60 each to a group of workmen to bring a van to move the bin to his family's home on Wood End Road, in Harrow, northwest London.

He sent messages to Mrs Kam's friends and family pretending she was alive and well but had gone away.

On the afternoon they killed her, El-Abboud advertised Ms Kam's black BMW 3 Series convertible on his Facebook account and sold it to an unsuspecting buyer, pretending it was his own car.

The court heard Al-Jundi was a 'Walter Mitty' character who bragged that he was a millionaire with a string of beautiful girlfriends.

In fact, he was a penniless cook working at the Yasmeen Shamin kebab house in Willesden High Road with a wife and three children.

But he conned women to try and attain the lifestyle he thought he deserved and had stolen two cars from one victim in her sixties after declaring his undying love for her.

Al-Jundi told Mrs Kam he loved her too, hoping she would sign her property portfolio over to him.

He and his friend El-Abboud, described in court as a 'homeless gypsy boy', killed her when she refused.

They denied murder, but Al-Jundi has never offered any explanations for his actions.

El-Abboud blamed him and claimed he was actually asleep when the chef killed Mrs Kam.

The jury convicted them both of murder after a two month trial and they now face life sentences on a date to be fixed.

Mrs Kam was a divorcee who had a business premises and a block of flats near Al-Jundi's restaurant.

She owned those properties outright but had a mortgage on the house at in Barnet and lived in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire.

Mrs Kam wanted to sell the properties to give money to her children and Al-Jundi offered her £6 million, far above the market value.

He told her his backer was a girlfriend woman called

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