Two men strangled a 71-year-old businesswoman in a £5 million scam to plunder her life savings before posting videos on TikTok from her house.
Louise Kam, from Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, was strangled with a hairdryer cord and dumped in a wheelie bin after being lured to a three-bedroom house she owned in Barnet, north London, on July 26 2021.
One of her killers then told her friends that she had deceived him and fled to China with all his money.
Following a trial at the Old Bailey, chef Kusai Al-Jundi, 25, and delivery driver Mohamed El-Abboud, 28, were found guilty of her murder on Thursday.
They targeted the trusting mother-of-two, who had previously owned a catering business with her ex-husband before going into rental properties.
She owned two north London properties - the £1.3 million house in Barnet and a shop with three flats in Willesden.
A friend had introduced her to Al-Jundi, who worked at the Yasmeen Sham Restaurant in Willesden and lived with his mother, wife and children in Harrow.
Al-Jundi boasted of having a wealthy girlfriend called Anna who was willing to put up £4.6 million to buy Ms Kam's properties in a deal which involved avoiding tax.
But what seemed to be a golden opportunity was a sham as Al-Jundi never intended to part with a penny, the court was told.
He went on to instruct a solicitor to draw up legal papers to transfer Ms Kam's properties into his name and got her to sign a Lasting Power of Attorney document in a bid to seize control of her finances.
Meanwhile, El-Abboud moved into Ms Kam's Barnet house and treated it as his own.
Jurors saw a TikTok video of Romanian national El-Abboud boastfully showing people around the property.
The scam came to a head when Ms Kam made it clear she would not sign over the properties without meeting "Anna".
A meeting was arranged at the Barnet house but, by the time Ms Kam realised something was amiss, it was too late.
The defendants bundled up her body in a duvet and dumped it in a rubbish bin which Al-Jundi later arranged to be collected and taken to his family home in the hope it would be end up in landfill.
Her body was eventually discovered at Al-Jundi's home, hidden beneath turf in the wheelie bin.
Giving evidence, El-Abboud denied being involved in her death and blamed Al-Jundi, who declined to give evidence.
Adjourning sentencing until February 1, Judge Mark Lucraft KC told them: "You have been convicted of the most brutal murder of Louise Kam. Not just satisfied with trying to defraud her of large sums of money, you left her in the rubbish to be taken away."
