The two met 54 times in the 12 months before the murder and jurors were shown photographs Paizan took of Akom semi-naked.

On the day of the killing, they had arranged to meet by Facebook Messenger.

Paizan claimed he had little memory of events leading up to her death after she “poisoned” him and said she had made repeated demands for money. He then hit her over the head at least 20 before CCTV recorded him placing her body in his car boot after calmly washing his hands and face.

“I tried to take her to the park, put her in a good place,” he told the Old Bailey.

Paizan was convicted by a jury after just one hour of deliberation, as they heard how he attacked her in his converted shipping container before burying her beneath a pile of logs and branches in local woodland.

He is due to be sentenced in court on Monday 25 July.

Agnes Akom: a 64-year-old man has been found guilty of murdering the 20-year-old in 2021