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| A financial trader accused of murdering a wealthy reclusive author at his north London home has been found guilty of dishonesty charges. | |
| Wang Yam, of Denning Road, Hampstead, was found convicted of obtaining a £20,000 money transfer by deception and of stealing £20 from a bank machine. | Wang Yam, of Denning Road, Hampstead, was found convicted of obtaining a £20,000 money transfer by deception and of stealing £20 from a bank machine. |
| The Old Bailey jury was sent home for the night and will continue considering other charges in the case on Tuesday. | The Old Bailey jury was sent home for the night and will continue considering other charges in the case on Tuesday. |
| Mr Yam, 46, denied murder, burglary and four dishonesty offences in 2006. | |
| Prosecutors alleged Mr Yam killed recluse Allan Chappelow, 86, in order to steal his identity and plunder his wealth. | |
| Financial difficulties | |
| Mr Chappelow's badly-beaten body was found hidden under a pile of papers at his home in Downshire Hill, Hampstead, in June. | |
| During the two-month trial jurors heard that Mr Chappelow, an expert on writer George Bernard Shaw, lived alone in the dilapidated property. | |
| For a month after the author's body was discovered, a man was stealing his post and using information from it to access bank and credit card accounts. | |
| Prosecutors claimed that Mr Yam murdered the writer because he was in financial difficulty. | |
| Parts of the trial were heard in secret to protect national security. |