Solely when you realize the context of the video, does its true horror change into obvious.
A younger man is dancing and gyrating on the driveway of a sensible trying home in north London – ‘busting some strikes’, as some may say – in some fashionable new garments.
He seems relatively happy with himself, like he has one thing to have fun.
The video, posted on TikTok , was recorded by kebab store employee Mohamed El-Abboud, 29
The video, posted on TikTok, was recorded by kebab store employee Mohamed El-Abboud, 29, nearly precisely three years in the past.
What we all know now, nonetheless, is simply two days earlier than posting that video, he’d throttled the proprietor of that home – 71-year-old Louise Kam – with a hair dryer twine, after which stuffed her lifeless physique right into a wheelie bin.
The light, church-going, mom of two had been lured to the property by El-Abboud and his co-conspirator Kusai Al-Jundi, 26, in £4.6million rip-off, meant to steal Louise’s multi-million property portfolio.
El-Abboud had throttled 71-year-old Louise Kam with a hair dryer twine, after which stuffed her lifeless physique right into a wheelie bin
Sickeningly within the days earlier than the homicide, as they hatched their evil plot, El-Abboud had moved into the empty property in Barnet, from the place he recorded movies of him dancing with a mannequin, and mocking Louise’s ‘wealth and success’.
Finally the movies would type a part of the online that snared the killers.
Duped, scammed and lured to her dying by two callous conmen. It was not the tip anybody – not to mention a dignified woman like Louise Kam – deserved.
That her life ought to have ended the best way it did is a supply of never-ending agony to those that knew and beloved her.
As her shut buddy Kambiz Rohany, who spoke completely to the Mail this week, says: ‘It’s like anyone gave you one of the best diamond on the planet and abruptly somebody grabs it from you and breaks it.
Kusai Al-Jundi, 26, co-conspired with El-Abboud in a £4.6million rip-off, meant to steal Louise’s multi-million property portfolio
‘Louise had a golden coronary heart, she solely needed to assist different individuals, that’s all she did. If ever somebody wanted assist, she could be there for them. She wouldn’t refuse anyone. I hate to consider what occurred to that angel, alone within the arms of these two lunatics.’
It has been three years since Louise was murdered, however the circumstances by which she died, and her buddy’s unwitting function in introducing her to her killers are etched in Kambiz’s reminiscence.
The chain of occasions main as much as and after Louise’s dying is performed out in vivid element in a newly-released Channel 5 documentary, Physique within the Bin – The Homicide of Louise Kam, which makes use of CCTV footage and social media footage, the latter created by one in all her killers, to reconstruct the homicide.
Louise Kam ‘had a golden coronary heart, she solely needed to assist different individuals’, says her shut buddy Kambiz Rohany
Inside hours of strangling Louise, the killer had offered her BMW convertible for money, spending the proceeds on new garments earlier than happening to publish that obscene video of himself on TikTok, dancing on his sufferer’s driveway, in those self same new garments.
Kambiz Rohany, 61, who shared a lot of the final 18 years of his life with Louise, was a key witness within the case that introduced the evil pair to justice.
His loss was too uncooked for him to wish to take part within the documentary, however this week he spoke completely to the Mail, sharing his reminiscences of Louise and his enduring remorse over the unwittingly half he performed in her demise.
‘I blame myself, to be sincere,’ says the loyal buddy and companion who, like Louise, began his life many hundreds of miles away, in Iran, earlier than making Britain his dwelling.
He’s sitting within the Willesden Inexperienced flat that Louise – a divorcee who ran a enterprise supplying catering tools, earlier than shifting into property – owned, and his anguish is palpable.
Louise was launched to her killers after assembly Al-Jundi on the kebab store, simply over the highway from Louise’s property, in Willesden, the place he labored as a chef alongside El-Abboud
‘The considered shedding Louise makes my hair stand on finish,’ he says. ‘I’ve nightmares, I can’t sleep.’
He’d launched Louise to her killers after assembly Al-Jundi on the kebab store, simply over the highway from Louise’s property, in Willesden, the place he labored as a chef alongside El-Abboud.
‘I used to be at his restaurant and he stated to me, “I wish to purchase a property, I’ve a wealthy girlfriend, I wish to pay money and I’ll even pay further.”‘
Conscious that Louise was seeking to liquidate a few of her property – she owned three flats in Willesden, in addition to a £1.3million home in Barnet, and one other property in Potters Bar – Kambiz made the fateful introduction.
‘She instructed me she needed to retire,’ he says regretfully. ‘She stated, “I don’t wish to work anymore, all these years once I was youthful, I didn’t have sufficient time to care for the youngsters. I wish to spend my time with my kids, that’s my responsibility as a mom.”’
Because the Outdated Bailey heard throughout the homicide trial final yr, Syrian Al-Jundi was a ‘Walter Mitty’ character who preferred to current himself – convincingly, it might appear – as a ‘particular person of means’.
He claimed to have a rich girlfriend referred to as Anna who was prepared to place up £4.6 million to purchase Louise’s property portfolio in an elaborate deal which concerned Louise ‘gifting’ him the properties, thereby avoiding tax.
In reality, when you low cost the 2 flashy vehicles he’d conned out of one other lady buyer, Al-Jundi had no property, no wealthy girlfriend and really lived together with his mom, his spouse and their kids, in Harrow.
Tragically, Louise’s youngest son, Greg, was extremely sceptical of the deal, and had warned his mom it could possibly be a rip-off, however she was attracted by the dimensions of the income and the will to assist her sons financially.
El-Abboud posted movies of himself and girlfriend Maria Amariucai dancing at Ms Lam’s property
In a ‘fastidiously orchestrated deception’, months within the planning, Al-Jundi persuaded Louise, who spoke Mandarin and French, to signal a Lasting Energy of Legal professional doc in a bid to grab management of her funds, whereas additionally instructing a solicitor to attract up authorized papers to switch her properties into his title.
By the point Louise arrived on the Barnet dwelling on July 26, 2001, to finalise the so-called deal, her destiny was, the courtroom instructed, already determined.
Because the Channel 5 documentary so vividly illustrates, the timeline of what occurred that day is all of the extra heartbreaking as a result of a lot of it performs out on CCTV footage.
At 2.55pm Louise, a girl whose slim body and darkish hair made her look significantly youthful than her years, will get behind the wheel of her black BMW and units off for Barnet.
At 3.02pm, Kambiz telephones Louise and he or she tells him she is assembly Al-Jundi, a solicitor and his mysterious feminine backer to finalise the deal. His coronary heart, he tells the Mail this week, sank; however he pushed apart his nagging worries. It could be the final time he spoke to the lady he describes as a ‘good businesswoman’, albeit one who cared extra for individuals than she did cash.
The horrifying particulars of what occurred subsequent is one thing solely those that have been in that home that day may give a full account of.
Police would set up that El-Abboud, Al-Jundi and a Romanian lady, Maria Amariucai, have been on the Barnet dwelling that day.
Al-Jundi and Maria (she instructed police she was not his girlfriend, although messages between them would counsel the 2 have been very shut) then left the property at 3.13pm.
In an obvious try to ascertain an alibi, Al-Jundi took Maria to a jewelry retailer on Willesden Excessive Highway the place he purchased her a £580 pair of diamond earrings as a present, whereas again on the home El-Abboud and Louise remained.
The next police investigation would reveal Louise was strangled with the twine of a hairdryer, they very hairdryer seen mendacity on the bottom behind El-Abboud in one of many posturing, preening movies he posted to social media within the days main as much as the homicide.
There was a violent wrestle lasting 30 to 40 seconds earlier than Louise’s life ebbed away.
If the crime was calculated, the cover-up was shambolic.
El-Abboud would confess to Maria that he had ‘killed that woman’ later that day, as he drove his fellow Romanian again to her dwelling in Coventry. She would change into a key witness for the prosecution.
Journalist Dan Mountney on a bus within the Channel 5 documentary Physique In The Bin
On the exact same day he wrapped a twine round his sufferer’s neck, El-Abboud moved Louise’s BMW 3 collection convertible across the nook from the place she’d parked it, then offered it on Fb market a day later.
Finally, El-Abboud would try to blame all the things on his co-conspirator, however the courtroom was instructed that each males ‘did this collectively’: Al-Jundi boasting he would make a ‘vital amount of cash’ from Louise’s dying and {that a} share of it might be El-Abboud’s reward.
Telephone information established that the killers had a 22-minute telephone dialog within the aftermath of the homicide, earlier than assembly (captured on CCTV, once more) on the kebab store the place they each labored to gather cleansing merchandise. They then returned to Barnet, wrapping Louise’s physique in plastic baggage and a quilt, placing it in a wheelie bin and masking it with backyard garbage.
Openly and bizarrely, Al-Jundi then organized for 3 fully unsuspecting males to maneuver the wheelie bin in a van to the driveway of his own residence in Harrow, the place it remained till police discovered it on August 1.
Within the interim, the killers took Louise’s telephone and financial institution playing cards, sending poorly written textual content messages to her family and friends saying she had gone to China.
Little did they know, as they fired off puzzled replies and reported her lacking to police, she was already lifeless.
They even questioned Al-Jundi, however he had the audacity to say that Louise had deceived him and left the nation, taking his cash together with her.
Each males have been discovered responsible of homicide on the Central Legal Courtroom in January 2023, and despatched to jail for all times.
Again in Willesden Inexperienced, Kambiz Rohany is a damaged man.
Kambiz, whose shut friendship with Louise dates again to when he grew to become her tenant, 18 years in the past, speaks with deep affection of a girl who shared with him her personal journey from China to the UK, as a baby.
‘They [her family] have been aristocrats in China, Louise’s grandfather had a plant producing tea in Shanghai. However he was shot lifeless when Mao Zedong and the Communists got here and took their entire fortune.’
He recounts how after they have been pressured to flee China, Louise’s father took her older siblings to the USA, whereas her mom, a shrewd businesswoman with a level in English from an American college in Shanghai, took Louise and sister Ruth to Hong Kong after which the UK. She’d introduced together with her a carefully-concealed bundle of antiques which she used to arrange a Chinese language restaurant in north London.
‘Louise and her sister helped their mom within the restaurant of their free-time after college,’ says Kambiz.
In 1972 Louise married an Englishman, Frank Kam, and so they had two sons, earlier than divorcing.
‘She gave cash to charities for weak kids and psychological well being and he or she was a baptised Christian lady who went to church each Sunday,’ says Kambiz. ‘She was very modest, all the time dressed properly, however nothing fancy, it was all the time Marks & Spencer, one thing like that.
‘All her tenants noticed her as a buddy. She was all the time smiling, all the time pleasant.’
Such was her generosity, he admits, early of their friendship, she invested in an Iranian restaurant they launched collectively, however that went out of enterprise 4 years later.
He was looking for a chance for Louise, to spice up her morale after a failed try to arrange a medical provides firm throughout the pandemic, when he made the fateful introduction. How he needs he might flip the clock again,
He recollects his personal mounting worries as he tried repeatedly to name Louise, chatting with her household, chatting with anybody who may know the place she was.
‘They despatched all these messages from her cell. I replied saying, “You aren’t Louise, the place is my Louise?”.’
He doesn’t like to consider the 20-40 seconds it took for Louise’s final breath to be snuffed out, or of the battle she so clearly put up in these closing moments.
After that they took Louise’s physique and put a plastic bag over her beautiful face, took her bank cards, new iPhone and put her physique within the backyard bin,’ he says.
He’s, he says, a ‘lonely and damaged man’ – distraught on the lack of a girl who ‘beloved and cared for thus many’.
‘So many miss her,’ he says.
In courtroom he put it thus: ‘Time doesn’t heal. Now and for the remainder of our lives, I and all that beloved her, will dwell understanding of the brutality she suffered, to her final breath, the disregard of her stays, the place no pity or mercy was had.’
This week, surrounded by reminiscences, he says: ‘I’m Iranian and if we have been in Iran, these two would dangle.’
