Two sentenced for life over £4.6m property fraud murder

• Kusai Al-Jundi, 25, and Mohamed El-Abboud, 28, were found guilty of murdering Louise Kam.
• She vanished in July 2021 and was later discovered abandoned in a trash can.
• Judge Mark Lucraft told the pair: “You did what you did out of greed”.

After a £4.6 million attempt to “plunder” a businesswoman’s property failed, two men were sentenced to life in prison for killing her.

71-year-old Louise Kam vanished in July 2021 and was later discovered abandoned in a trash can.

On January 19, Kusai Al-Jundi, 25, of Harrow, London, and Mohamed El-Abboud, 28, of Romanian descent, were found guilty of murder.

Both were given life sentences with a 35-year minimum.

Al-Jundi, a chef at a restaurant in Willesden, north-west London, “hatched” the scheme.

In an effort to get control of two houses she owned in Willesden and East Barnet, he had spent months courting Ms. Kam, a resident of Potters Bar, Hertfordshire.

He also wanted her to sign over control of her finances to him.

Judge Mark Lucraft said Al-Jundi had told Ms Kam “lie after lie” in a “cynical deception” to defraud her.

El-Abboud, the second defendant, a delivery driver at the same restaurant, allegedly moved into one of her homes in East Barnet’s Gallants Farm Road and started to treat it as his own.

Ms. Kam thought Al-Jundi had offered her millions of pounds for the houses, and with that sum, she could pay off her mortgage and buy a home for her kids.

According to Judge Lucraft, El-Abboud posted videos on social media making fun of Ms. Kam’s wealth.

Det Ch Insp Brian Howie of the Met Police described it as a “despicable, callous crime” motivated by greed after the couple was found guilty in January.

Having resolved to murder her to get hold of her assets, he promised El-Abboud a share “as a reward for killing her”, the judge said.

He told the pair: “You did what you did out of greed.”

In a victim impact statement, Ms. Kam’s son Gregory Kam said the family had been left in a state of “disbelief” at what had happened to his mother.

He said: “I deeply regret I was not able to do enough at the time to prevent my mother from falling for the lies of his wolf in sheep’s clothing.

“In addition to the initial shocking news of our mother’s disappearance and subsequent news of her murder, I was not only shocked but further angered and sickened to discover defendant one [Al-Jundi] enlisted the help of an accomplice to trick, entrap, overpower and murder a pension-age woman in her own home under the guise of what was supposed to be a business deal.”

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