Iuliana Tudos murderer, Kasim Lewis, linked to second murder, of civil servant Catherine Burke
Kasim Lewis has admitted murdering Catherine Burke (Image: Met Police/PA)
MyLondon 15 July 2019:
‘Wicked’ predator Kasim Lewis, who bottled barmaid to death in Finsbury Park, admits second sexually-motivated murder
Lewis has admitted murdering retired civil servant Catherine Burke at her home in Haringey
A monstrous thug who hit the headlines for the gruesome murder of a barmaid in North London had killed a retired civil servant one month before.
“Wicked” predator Kasim Lewis, 32, attacked Iuliana Tudos with a broken bottle in Finsbury Park as she walked home on Christmas Eve 2017.
The 22-year-old barmaid had not long finished a shift at the Worlds End pub in Camden when Lewis struck.
22 year old barmaid, Iuliana Tudos. Her naked body was found…
Her naked body was found in a burned-out hut in the park three days after she disappeared.
Lewis, 32, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 29 years last May for the sexually-motivated murder.
But in a shocking twist of events, Lewis’ DNA was linked to the death of Catherine Burke, who was stabbed to death in her own home in Haringey a month before the killing of Ms Tudos.
At a hearing at the Old Bailey on Monday (July 15), Lewis pleaded guilty to the murder of Ms Burke on November 16, 2017.
The 55-year-old mum-of-one and retired civil servant was found dead by police after concerned neighbours raised the alarm.
Police found DNA linking the defendant to the scene and tracked Ms Burke’s mobile phone in the direction of where he was living. Explicit pornographic material was found on the defendant’s mobile phone, the court heard at an earlier hearing.
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She was found in Finsbury Park just 500 yards from her home.
