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MURDERED FOR SHAM MARRIAGES DOUBLE CROSS
Three Dutch nationals bound and gagged a legal executive and stabbed her son to death when she did not pay them enough for a sham marriage scheme, a court heard.
Riches Obi, 25, was found slumped on the floor by the front door with slash and stab wounds to his chest in a flat in Elephant and Castle on 17 November 2020.
His mother Bernadette Ortet, who worked for Obadiah Rose Solicitors specialising in immigration and nationality law, was found with her ankles and wrists restrained by cable ties in a bedroom.
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