UK truck driver Neculai Paizan found guilty of killing Agnes Akom at Old Bailey trial | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site

2022-07-23 01:24:22 By : Ms. Cherry Geng

A man has been found guilty of murder as CCTV images of him pushing a wheelie bin containing the woman he killed were released by police.

CCTV footage has shown a truck driver dragging a wheelie bin that contained the body of a woman he murdered before dumping her in a park.

This week, Neculai Paizan, 64, was found guilty of beating Agnes Akom, 20, over the head more than 20 times with an electric saw as he brutally murdered her in his converted shipping container home in northwest London, The Sun reports.

Police released the harrowing images of Paizan with the wheelie bin after a jury at the Old Bailey found him guilty of the murder.

Officers also released pictures of the grimy shipping container the truck driver chose to live in – which didn’t have running water – despite owning a £700,000 ($A120,000) flat in Notting Hill.

The squalid “home” was where the truck driver killed Ms Akom last year in a furious attack, before leaving her body under a pile of logs in a park.

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Paizan claimed he woke up and found the young woman dead after she had drugged him.

The jury, however, took less than an hour of deliberation before handing down the guilty verdict.

In the months before the murder, Paizan was seen several times with Ms Akom near the container in Acton Road, Park Royal, by staff at a nearby car dealership.

On the morning of May 9 last year, Ms Akom left her flat in Cricklewood, London, after telling her partner she was going to work.

She then exchanged messages with Paizan and a man she worked for, Attila Molna-Feri, a Hungarian coffin maker who she had an “intimate relationship” with.

Ms Akom then ordered an Uber to go to Mr Molna-Feri’s house, but Paizan arrived at the Costa Coffee where she was sitting and, after speaking with him, left with him instead in his silver Dacia Sandero.

CCTV was played which showed the pair later entering Paizan’s shipping container.

During the trial, prosecutor Jacob Hallam said: “The doors close behind him. That is the last time that Agnes is seen alive on CCTV.”

The truck driver was next seen about half an hour later heading to a tap to wash off bloodstains, before carrying several items out of his container into the boot of his car, the court heard.

He was seen carrying Ms Akom’s distinctive white fur coat, as well as pink slip-on shoes, carpet and items matted with blood and hair.

Later that day, CCTV caught Paizan dragging the wheelie bin to his car.

The body was then left in his car overnight outside his Peel Street home, before Paizan went the next morning to Neasden Recreation Ground and buried Ms Akom in a shallow grave under a pile of logs, the court heard.

The 20-year-old’s body was found a month later covered in a black plastic bag with a cord around her throat.

A pathologist found her death had been caused by at least 20 blows to the head.

Police found a blood stain on the spine of a bible in the shipping container – which was found to match Ms Akom’s profile through a DNA sample.

Paizan, of Peel Street, Notting Hill, denied murdering Ms Akom, and insisted he had passed out after the victim gave him a drugged iced tea in his home.

He claimed that when he woke up he found her dead.

He will be sentenced next week.

This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission

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