Two men have been sentenced to 35 years each in jail for murdering a 71-year-old businesswoman in a £4.6m scam to plunder her life savings. Mohamed El Abboud, 28, and Kusai Al-Jundi, 25, targeted trusting mother-of-two Louise Kam, who had previously owned a catering business with her ex-husband before going into rental properties.
Al-Jundi, a chef from north-west London, spent months attempting to trick Ms Kam, from Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, into giving him control of two properties she owned in Willesden and East Barnet by offering her millions of pounds.
He also aimed to gain control of her finances by convincing her to sign a Lasting Power of Attorney document.
But the scam came to a head when Ms Kam made it clear she would not sign over the properties.
The pair then lured her to her three-bedroom property in Barnet on 26 July last year. There she was strangled with a hairdryer cord during a “violent struggle”.
