Gardener ‘strangled allotment secretary with lawnmower cord’

The secretary of an allotment association was strangled with a lawnmower cord by a fellow member and left inside a locked shed near the plot which was her ‘passion’, a court heard. Widow Lea Adri-Soejoko, 80, was allegedly assaulted and rendered defenceless by keen gardener Rahim Mohammadi, 42, before was murdered and laid on a pallet in the cobwebbed outhouse. Mrs Adri-Soejoko’s body was found the next morning after her daughter Tessa searched for her with police on the Colindale…