A coffin maker was killed with a power saw by a truck driver who was residing in a shipping container before her body was dumped in a shallow grave, the court heard.
Neculai Paizan, 64, is charged with repeatedly hitting Agnes Akom, a Hungarian woman, over the head at his Brent, north-west London, house.
The 20-year-body old’s was then placed in a wheelie bin by Romanian native Paizan, who then carried the body to a park and buried it in a trench beneath some logs, according to evidence presented at the Old Bailey.
Paizan was apprehended on May 18 and charged with Ms. Akom’s murder five days later after she was reported missing on May 11 of last year.
After a month, her body was not discovered.
“On May 9, 2021, she was killed in a converted shipping container that stands down the side of a car dealership in Brent, in the northwest portion of London,” prosecutor Jacob Hallam, QC, told the jury.
‘In a forested area of a leisure area in Neasden, her body was discovered buried in a pit, concealed beneath a stack of logs and twigs.
And it was discovered there on June 14 of last year, or precisely one week before she was supposed to turn 21.
Decomposition was “advanced” since it took weeks for Ms. Akom’s body to be recovered after she died, but a pathologist found she had taken “at least 20 strikes to the skull,” the jury heard.
She had died as a result of those hits, Mr. Hallam claimed.
“When her body was recovered, her head had been covered in a black plastic bag, attached with a rope around her throat. The bag seemed to have been put on to catch the blood from the injuries to her head since it would seem that the bag had been put on after she had died.
Paizan owned a home in Peel Street in Notting Hill, west London, but as of mid-2019, he has been renting the shipping container.
Despite “vigorous attempts” to wipe it up, it was allegedly “heavily smeared” with Ms. Akom’s blood when it was examined by authorities.
Lennox Autos employees who worked next to the shipping container saw Paizan with a woman resembling Ms Akom multiple times in the months prior to the murder.
On the morning of May 9, Ms. Akom informed her partner that she was heading to work before leaving her apartment on Cricklewood Broadway.
She messaged Paizan between 10 and 11 a.m. that morning, the court heard.
Additionally, she is alleged to have messaged Attila Molna-Feri, a Hungarian coffin builder with whom she allegedly had a “intimate relationship.”
She reserved an Uber to take her to Mr. Molna-house, Feri’s but Paizan showed up at the Costa Coffee where she was sitting, and after a brief exchange, the jury was informed that she entered his silver Dacia Sandero.
The jury was informed that he drove them to his shipping container and arrived there just before noon.
The CCTV footage of the two people entering the gray metal box was aired.
‘The doors close behind him,’ Mr. Hallam remarked.
“That is the last time Agnes is seen alive on CCTV,” was the statement.
A little over 30 minutes later, according to the court, Paizan was seen on CCTV leaving the container and walking toward a nearby faucet while sporting “red markings” on his arm.
The prosecutor claimed that no one else entered or left the container.
According to the prosecution, Agnes received the wounds that led to her death during that time.
And that the woman’s blood, which is red marks on the defendant’s left arm, was the victim of his recent murder.
Jurors were informed that just after 3:30 pm, the alleged murderer removed items from the shipping container unit and placed them in the trunk of his vehicle.
It is said that he threw away Ms. Akom’s white fur coat, a rolled-up carpet, clothes, pink slip-on shoes, and a pillowcase.
The jigsaw, covered in her blood and hair, was purportedly discovered by the police next to her belongings.
CCTV allegedly saw Paizan later that day pulling a “huge white thing” that was “big enough to house a human body” from his unit’s door to his car.
That was the method he used to remove the woman’s body from the container, according to Mr. Hallam.
The body was then placed in the car, driven to the apartment on Peel Street, left there over night, and early the next morning, the murderer drove to the recreation area and used a trash can to move the body of the victim from bag to trash can to burial location.
According to the prosecution, Agnes Akom’s body was inside the white object when the defendant put it in the rear of his car, most likely into the boot.
Paizan, of Peel Street in Notting Hill, rejects accusations of murder.
Today’s trial is still going on.