UK news Man accused of London allotment murder smoked opium in shed Rahim Mohammadi denies strangling Lea Adri-Soejoko, 80, with lawnmower cord Lea Adri-Soejoko’s body was found in a shed in February last year. Photograph: Metropolitan police/PAA gardener accused of strangling an 80-year-old woman with a mower cord in an attempt to take control of an allotment society has admitted regularly smoking opium in his shed. Rahim Mohammadi, 41, from Hackney, east London, told the Old Bailey he heard shouting on the day Lea Adri-Soejoko was killed at the Colindale allotments in north London. When Adri-Soejoko told him to “shut up” in a discussion over enforcement notices, he called her “little witch” as he walked out, the court heard. Two days before the killing, the defendant said he met a man on the allotment who offered to sell him £200 of opium.

Source: The Guardian January 31, 2018 16:16 UTC