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Tristan Kirk

Pensioner ‘murdered with hairdryer cord in cunning plot to seize her £1.3m home’

Louise Kam was strangled at her property in East Barnet

(Picture: PA Media)

A pensioner was strangled with a hairdryer cord and her body was dumped in a rubbish bin in a plot to get hold of her £1.3 million north London home, the Old Bailey heard.

Louise Kam, 72, was last seen alive on CCTV as she arrived at the property in East Barnet when she allegedly believed she was about to sell the home for £5 million.

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