21 years for homeless man who battered woman to death when she tried to get him out her flat

A homeless killer who battered a woman to death with a mallet after she let him stay in her £1.3m apartment has been jailed for at least 21 years. Apapale Adoum, 39, murdered 37-year-old Victoria Adams in her bedroom when he asked her to leave the flat in Coutler Road, Shepherd’s Bush, on 9 February this year. The mother of four daughters was discovered with a black bin bag over her head, covered by a duvet and pillows. She had…