The brutal murder of a Potters Bar businesswoman is examined in forensic detail in a harrowing documentary airing on TV.
The Body in the Bin can be seen on Channel 5 on Thursday, August 29 at 9pm.
Featuring Welwyn Hatfield Times journalist Dan Mountney, the hour-long programme looks at the murder of 71-year-old mother Louise Kam, who was strangled with the cord from a hairdryer.
Her body was then unceremoniously concealed in a rubbish bin by the killers.
According to Channel 5's episode overview, The Body in the Bin features "extraordinary unseen videos posted by the killers and harrowing CCTV footage to create a horrific timeline of events".
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It is a shocking story of fraud, murder and the impact of social media, with the culprits now behind bars.
What began as an audacious plot to defraud £5 million from an unsuspecting businesswoman ended up with Louise Kam being callously dumped in a wheelie bin on a driveway.
Kebab shop workers Kusai Al-Jundi and colleague Mohamed El-Abboud tried to convince Louise to sign over her estate to them with the promise of a vast sum of cash from a wealthy overseas investor.
One of the properties was a house in Gallants Farm Road, East Barnet.
When this plan failed, the fraudsters-turned-killers strangled Louise with the cord from a hairdryer in a home she owned in North London.
They then hid her body in a wheelie bin before posting callous TikTok videos “celebrating” Louise’s murder by dancing on her driveway just hours after her brutal killing in July 2021.
Al-Jundi even sent false text messages purporting to be from Louise to her family and friends claiming she had left the country.
Al-Jundi and El-Abboud were jailed for a minimum of 35 years in February 2023.
Catherine Gould, prosecutor with the Crown Prosecution Service, said at the time: “This horrific crime is a tale of greed taken to extremes. Al-Jundi and El-Abboud selfishly and brutally ended Louise Kam’s life for their own ends."
Detective Chief Inspector Brian Howie led the investigation, which he described as "painstaking".
He said after the pair were sentenced: "This was a despicable, calculated and callous crime of greed carried out by two young men against an elderly lady.
"Over a number of months, Al-Jundi attempted to plunder her life savings and take ownership of her properties. El-Abboud assisted his friend in bringing the plot to a fatal conclusion; Louise was strangled and her body dumped unceremoniously in a rubbish bin.
"Heartless attempts were then made to deceive her family and friends as to her whereabouts."
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