Truck driver who fatally struck a woman over the head more than 20 times with an electric jigsaw has been sentenced to life in prison

‘Wicked’ truck driver who fatally struck a woman over the head more than 20 times with an electric jigsaw has been sentenced to life in prison.

On May 9 of last year, Neculai Paizan, 64, viciously murdered Agnes Akom, 20, in his converted shipping container house before dragging her body to be deposited in a North West London wooded area.

On June 14, more than a month after she went missing and after her worried boyfriend, with whom she shared a Cricklewood apartment, reported her missing, the Metropolitan Police discovered Ms Akom’s remains in a shallow grave at Neasden recreation field.

The police have recently made public a picture of the pit where Ms. Akom’s horribly decomposed body was discovered one month after Paizan abandoned it there.

She had been wrapped in a black plastic bag and positioned underneath a stack of logs and branches with a cord tied around her neck.

The judge said that Paizan, of Kensington, had not showed “one iota of regret” and sentenced him to life in jail with a minimum of 22 years after an Old Bailey jury found him guilty.

As a result of his lies about her, including his claims that she was a sex worker and that she had poisoned him with iced coffee, Ms. Akom’s family accused him of “dragging her through the mud” after the verdict.

The man from Romania had stated that immediately after she had given him an iced coffee to get him high, he had discovered Ms. Akom dead inside the shipping container.

According to testimony given in court, Ms. Akom left her house on Cricklewood Broadway early on May 9 and informed her partner that she was off to work.

Paizan had been spotted with Ms Akom numerous times in the months prior to her murder, and she had previously made several trips to his shipping container.

Paizan had texted her between 10 and 11 a.m. that day before picking her up in his silver Dacia Sandero outside Costa Coffee.

They then made their way to his shipping container in Brent from there.

CCTV recorded the events. ‘At 11.47am, the defendant and Miss Akom got out of the car and walked around to the service yard at the side of Lennox Autos and to the container,’ the prosecution’s Jacob Hallam QC told the jury.

Both of them entered and shut the door. That occurred at 11:49 am. Miss Akom was last seen at this location.

A half-hour or so later, CCTV saw Paizan casually washing his hands and cleaning away bloodstains after stepping outside the container to use a tap.

He was observed hauling stuff out of the cargo container shortly after 3:30 pm and loading them into the trunk of his vehicle.

Later, he dumped Ms. Akom’s white fur coat, clothes, pink slippers, and the electric power tool covered in her blood and hair in a neighbouring landfill.

Later, he was observed dragging a “big white thing” to his car, which he left overnight in front of his Peel Street residence.

The next day he went to Neasden Recreation Ground, where he was discovered dragging her body into the wooded area after stuffing it into a wheelie bin.

In the days that followed, Paizan made five trips to the park to retrieve the body while announcing to his son that he intended to return to Romania.

The young Hungarian coffin maker was reported missing that evening, but it wasn’t until June 14—one week before her 21st birthday—that her horribly decomposed body with her head in a black plastic bag was found.

Nine days after she was last seen alive, Paizan was taken into custody and later charged with her murder.

Officers found Ms. Akom’s final known whereabouts at Paizan’s rental container thanks to the police inquiry.

Despite “vigorous attempts” to clean it up, an examination of the container found significant blood traces that were consistent with the victim.

The defendant’s car also contained Ms. Akom’s blood.

The blood-stained jigsaw with Ms Akom’s hairs matted to it, along with her garments, had been packaged and dumped in a skip.

Paizan initially informed police that he had killed Ms. Akom in “self-defense,” but later changed his narrative when testifying to the jury at his trial.

Driver of a concrete mixer Paizan acknowledged moving the body but denied killing the girl he knew as Dora.

He stated during his defence that an iced coffee had drugged him before he became disoriented.

The judge dismissed his allegation as “absolutely ludicrous” because he claimed to have found her lifeless body after stepping outside the cargo container to get some air.

After discovering her pleading for change in a grocery store parking lot, he said that he had grown to love her “like a daughter.”

The evidence, however, seemed to indicate that he had taken advantage of her gullibility and sought her out with the promise of money.

The jury was shown pictures Paizan took of Ms Akom while she was partially clothed during their 54 meetings over the course of the year leading up to the murder.

Ms. Akom’s mother discussed her daughter’s move to Britain with her boyfriend Peter Lenart for a “new life” in a victim impact statement.

When reading the young couple’s testimony, the prosecutor, Jake Hallam QC, claimed that the defendant’s acts had “completely extinguished” their hopes.

According to Ms. Akom’s mother, Paizan “presented himself as a victim” to the jury and “dragged her name through the mud after her death.”

But he is the one who is lying, she said.

Agnes Bonczi, her mother, had clashed with her the day before she was brutally murdered and hadn’t seen her since she moved to the UK.

Because of Paizan’s conduct, she claimed, she “never had the chance to tell Agnes she still loved her.”

The court also learned that Ms. Akom had begun drafting a letter to her little son, who had been placed in foster care, just before she passed away.

Her partner, Mr. Lenart, detailed the difficulties the couple encountered in Britain as a result of their youth and “lack of money” in his statement.

I have had to hear Paizan say Agnes slept with 15 or 20 people a day – these are incredibly terrible comments,’ he added, describing how Paizan’s lies to the jury added to his grief.

These things weren’t done by her. She wasn’t a prostitution client.

“She was my partner, my greatest friend, and my love.” He took advantage of her weaknesses and knew it.

He was the last person to touch her when it should have been me, and he was the last to stroke her hair when it should have been me, the speaker added.

The Common Serjeant of London Judge Richard Marks handed down a life sentence to the man, saying, “We can only speculate as to what really transpired there and why you did what you did.

Tragically, she did not live to tell the tale, leaving the jury and the court with only your account, which the jury unsurprisingly rejected because it was clearly false.

She is about 5 feet 5 inches and eight and a half stone lighter than you are physically.

‘For reasons only you know, you launched into a vicious attack hitting her over the head at least twenty times with a handheld power tool, an electric jigsaw using at least moderate force and it was quite a heavy object and you also caused her a fracture to the nose which, according to the pathologist, required severe force.

She had no defensive wounds, therefore you must have caught her off guard and prevented her from even trying to defend herself by lifting her arms.

The scene must have been shocking. There was a considerable bit of bleeding from this incident.

“You then began a thorough workout in an effort to conceal what you had done.”

It is evident from your extensive testimony that you were completely in denial about what you did during the violent outburst that claimed the life of that young girl at the age of 20.

These were shockingly terrible deeds committed on your behalf.

“Why did it occur? I’m not sure, but it’s possible, and just like you’d tell the cops, “Don’t touch me, she commanded.

She advised me to leave her alone because she didn’t feel like it and wasn’t in the mood. “Or perhaps you felt used because she kept hounding you for money and you got weary of it.

He gave Paizan a life sentence with a minimum of 22 years in prison, saying that he had not showed “one iota of regret.”

Due to the nature of his crime, Paizan had been attacked three times while incarcerated, and the court heard mitigating evidence that he was likely to perish in jail.

The judge also commended the detectives from the Metropolitan Police for their “excellent” job in apprehending Paizan.

“Our sympathies are with Agnes’s family and friends, who have not only suffered from her loss but have also had to put up with hearing the horrors of her murder during this trial,” said Detective Chief Inspector Neil John of Scotland Yard.

Paizan attacked Agnes with a level of brutality that was genuinely awful. It is unthinkable what she endured within the container.

While the reason why he killed her that day is unclear, his efforts to conceal the crime in the hours and days that followed indicate a deliberate effort to make sure that not only was Agnes never found, but also that he would not be arrested.

‘In an effort to discredit Agnes during his testimony at the Old Bailey, Paizan made up a number of tales.

Our inquiry and what we know about Agnes lead us to believe that, while she was at her most vulnerable, he blatantly lied to the jury about her background and personal circumstances.

It’s possible that he took advantage of her weaknesses to abuse her, which ultimately led to her murder.