Overview

• On February 9 police responded to reports of a forced entry at a Coulter Road flat and found Victoria Adams dead inside with multiple injuries inflicted by a mallet.
• Papale Adoum, 39 and of no fixed address, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder.
• He was formally charged with Adams’s murder on June 5.
• He was remanded in custody by Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court on June 6 before attending a preliminary hearing at the Old Bailey on June 10.
• A plea hearing is scheduled for August 26 with Adoum held at Wandsworth Prison.