Aspiring Model Tells UK Trial How Friend Confessed to Murder During Car Journey

Earlier witness tells trial, 'We are dealing with a Walter Mitty'

An undated of Louise Kam, who was last seen alive on July 26, 2021. Two men went on trial for her murder in November 2022. Metropolitan Police

LONDON—An aspiring model has told a murder trial her friend confessed to murdering an elderly Chinese woman durng a car journey from London to Coventry.

Maria Amariucai, a Romanian national who had come to London the day before to meet a photographer about a possible modelling job, said she struggled to believe Mohammed El-Abboud’s confession because he had always been a “sweet guy.”