‘Man kills good friend of wealthy pensioner after he stops paying him’

A “parasitic” profit claimant who focused a rich aged girl after seeing her within the scorching tub at their native swimming pool, fleeced her of £284,000 after which killed her and buried her physique, a court docket heard.

Serkan Kaygusuz, 42, befriended 70-year-old Norma Girolami in 2017 and spent the following three years pillaging her fortune.

The retiree, who has by no means been married, was delighted when the previous grocery store employee approached her at their native pool.

They started seeing one another however prosecutors allege Mr Kaygusuz started demanding and accepting giant sums of cash from her.

When the pensioner refused handy over any more money in Might 2021, Mr Kaygusuz, who’s initially from Turkey, allegedly killed her and buried her physique to steal her house as a part of a “cold-blooded scheme”.

Kaygusuz was unemployed

Mrs Girolami, who was of Italian heritage, lived alone in a £900,000 house in Highgate, and was comfortably off a property portfolio.

Mr Kaygusuz was unemployed and lived together with his mother and father in Islington.

They first started a sexual relationship however later turned buddies, however the court docket was informed she was too embarrassed to introduce him to her members of the family.

Prosecutor Jocelyn Ledward informed the Outdated Bailey: “He wished her cash, he wasn’t able to half with it anymore, and so he killed her to get his palms on her cash and the rest he knew or suspected.”

He informed the jury that the couple met at their native swimming pool in 2017 and from early 2018 he started transferring important sums of cash to her each few weeks, totaling round £300,000.

“However round Might 2021, issues appear to have modified. The faucet of cash that has flowed so freely for thus lengthy has been turned off,” Ms Ledward defined.

The prosecutor went on: “By August, the defendant should have realized that his snug parasitic way of life was not going to proceed, that he was merely not going to get any extra from Miss Girolami. A minimum of, not whereas he is alive.

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Kaygusuz buried Girolami’s physique

The court docket heard that on August 19, 2021 he traveled to Leigh on Sea, returning to his house later that day. However he was by no means seen alive.

Mrs Ledward mentioned: “Phone information present that he arrived at her flat shortly after 8.30pm on August 19. Sooner or later later, most likely that very same night time, he kills her.

“After her loss of life, he hid her physique, ultimately burying it. The defendant accepted it, and accordingly pleaded responsible to perverting the course of public justice.

“The prosecution says this was his plan all alongside – burying Norma’s physique was a part of the premeditated homicide.”

Mr Kaygusuz is then accused of seizing his sufferer’s cell phone and laptop computer, pretending to his buddies and neighbors that he was away on vacation, earlier than “systematically taking the cash in his checking account”.

The jury was informed he took out two loans in her identify of £35,000 and £25,000 after her loss of life.

Ms Girolami was reported lacking by family and friends on September 20, 2021 and was arrested on October 1.

Jurors have been informed Mr Kaygusuz admitted perverting the course of justice by homicide, theft, three counts of fraud and one depend of transferring prison property however denied homicide.

The trial continues.