Overview

• Adoum, 39, entered the guilty plea over the February killing in Hammersmith after being charged earlier this year.
• Judge Nigel Lickley KC said he will impose a mandatory life sentence on October 24 and set the minimum term.
• Victoria Adams, 37, was found face down in her bedroom with a bin bag and pillow over her head after at least 10 blows to the head from a mallet bearing her blood and DNA.
• Police arrested Adoum at the scene following reports of an attempted break-in at the Coulter Road flat, and he has previous convictions for violence.
• The pair met days earlier at a homeless shelter; Adams had let him stay then asked him to leave, and the court received handwritten notes from Adoum containing derogatory comments about her.