About Potters Bar
Potters Bar is a town in Hertfordshire, England, 13 miles north of London. In 2011, it had a population of 21,882. The town dates to the early 13th century but remained a small, mainly agricultural, settlement until the arrival of the Great Northern Railway in 1850. It is now part of the London commuter belt.
Louise Kam: Two jailed for life over £4. 6m property fraud murder
... He had spent months befriending Ms Kam, from Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, and trying to deceive her into giving him control of two properties she owned in Willesden and East Barnet...
Louise Kam: Two men guilty of murdering businesswoman
... He had spent months befriending Ms Kam, from Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, and trying to deceive her into giving him control of two properties she owned in Willesden and East Barnet, and to sign over control of her finances to him...
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... Trains were stopped while British Transport Police used a helicopter and dog teams to help search for the person in the Potters Bar area, Great Northern Rail said...
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... Heavy smoke drifted across Potters Bar after Hertfordshire crews were called to the scene on the High Street at 14:36 BST...
To slip in the Paddington rail disaster: Surviving fears safety''
... Mr Cullen leveled fierce criticism of the rail industry for a catalogue of failures over known rail-safety-issues Paddington is supposed to be, was a watershed, but a series of fatal rail crashes followed in Hatfield in 2000, at Selby in 2001 and at Potters Bar in 2002...
Louise Kam: Two jailed for life over £4. 6m property fraud murder
By Jeremy Britton & Adriana ElguetaBBC News
Two men have been given life sentences for murdering a businesswoman after a £4. 6m plan to " plunder" her property went wrong.
Louise Kam, 71, disappeared In July 2021 and was later found dumped in a rubbish bin.
Kusai Al-Jundi, 25, of Harrow, London, and Romanian national Mohamed El-Abboud, 28, were
Both were sentenced to life with a minimum term of 35 years.
The Plan was " hatched" by Al-Jundi who worked as a chef at a restaurant in Willesden, north-west London.
He had spent months befriending Ms Kam, from Potters Bar , Hertfordshire, and trying to deceive her into giving him control of two properties she owned in Willesden and East Barnet.
He also wanted her to sign over control of her finances to him.
Judge Mark Lucraft said Al-Jundi had told Ms Kam " lie after lie" in a " cynical deception" to defraud her.
The Second defendant, El-Abboud, who worked as a delivery driver at the same restaurant, moved into one of her houses at Gallants Farm Road, East Barnet, and began to treat her property as his own, The Court heard.
Ms Kam believed she had been offered millions of pounds for the properties by Al-Jundi and that she could use The Money to pay off a mortgage and purchase a property for her children.
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