Daily Mail: A man accused of strangling an elderly widow on an allotment had called her a 'bloody old witch' after she curbed his ambition to take over running the site, a court has heard.

Iranian Rahim Mohammadi wanted 80-year-old Lea Adri-Soejoko to retire from her job as secretary of the Colindale Allotment Association so he could manage it himself, it was claimed.

He allegedly launched into a heated 'monologue' at Mrs Adri-Soejoko at an annual general meeting in September 2016 after she said it was not up to him to decide who should be evicted from their plot.

In February last year, he allegedly beat her up at the allotment in north London and then strangled her with the starter cord of a lawnmower to stop her from reporting the attack, the Old Bailey heard.

Her body was found in a locked mower shed after her family became concerned that she had not turned up at a meeting >>>