Footage has surfaced of a man dancing on TikTok a day after he murdered an elderly businesswoman he swindled out of almost £5 million.
Louise Kam, 72, was strangled to death with a hair dryer cord and thrown into a trash can outside her home in Barnet, north London on July 26, 2021.
Chef Qusay Al Jundi, 25, and delivery driver Mohamed El Abboud, 28, were found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison in a sentencing televised today.
Officers tracked down the duo after El Abboud posted two chilling videos on TikTok and was spotted on security cameras entering Kam’s home.
In one of the videos, El-Abboud, who moved into Kam’s three-bedroom home, brazenly showed people the house because he treated it like his own.
While the second clip, filmed the day after the murder, showed El Abboud dancing in the driveway in new clothes, selling Kam’s BMW.
He spun around looking at the camera to Big Lo G’s “Oh Yeah”.
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Judge Mark Lucraft KC at London’s Old Bailey sentenced each of them to at least 35 years in prison.
The judge said that Al Jundi was described as a “Walter Mitty” character, referring to a mild-mannered and bumbling individual who often dabbles in adventurous dreams.
Judge Lucraft said, “In the TikTok videos you posted, you made fun of Louise Kam’s wealth and showed you (El Aboud) enjoying the trappings of what you and Al Jundi achieved with your deceit.”
Al Jundi, a chef at a restaurant in Willesden, northwest London, told Kam he was “a wealthy man” supported by his multi-millionaire girlfriend.
He sought to “plunder” Cam’s savings by staging a fake sale of her two London properties—Cam hoped to use the money to buy her children a home.
He spent months befriending Kam to get her to hand over control of two of her houses, a £1.3 million home in Barnet and a three-unit shop in Willesden, to him.
The judge added that Al Jundi promised El Abboud a share “as a reward for her murder.”
Police have previously described the couple’s real estate fraud plot as a “despicable, heartless crime” driven by greed.
To continue their scheme, Al-Jundi and El-Abboud sent text messages to the victim’s friends after she was killed, prosecutors said.
Kam’s best friend from Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, stated in a witness statement that his “life without Louise has no meaning”.
“Louise loved and cared for many, many. Her eldest disabled son was left without a loving mother. A lot of people miss her too,” he said.
“Time does not heal. Now, and for the rest of my life, I and all who loved her will live, knowing about the atrocities to which she was subjected to her last breath, about the neglect of her remains, where there was no pity, no mercy.
“My life without Louise makes no sense,” Rohani added. “I will end my days a lonely and broken man.”
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