Lea Adri-Soejoko, 80, was found dead at the north-west London allotments she was secretary for in February 2017.
The killer must have been a tenant at Colindale allotments because they had a key to padlock the shed Mrs Adri-Soejoko was found in, prosecutors said on the first day of the trial.
Committee member Rahim Mohammadi, 41, from Hackney, denies murder.
Mrs Adri-Soejoko - also known by her maiden name, Hulselman - was reported missing at 01:40 GMT on 28 February.
Her body was found 20 minutes later.
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On Monday, the court heard Mrs Adri-Soejoko had been beaten up by Mohammadi, leaving her with fractured ribs and bruises.
To stop her reporting the assault, he allegedly throttled her with the starter cord of a Mountfield lawnmower stored in the lock-up where she was found.
As a committee member, he had his own key to the mower shed which had been locked from the outside with Mrs Adri-Soejoko's body in it, with her keys in her pocket, the court heard.
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Jurors have heard that Adri-Soejoko’s family and friends became concerned after she failed to turn up for an allotment society meeting. In the early hours of the next morning, police followed the sound of her ringing phone and found her body inside a locked shed on the allotment used to store mowers. The starter cord of a lawnmower had been wrapped around her neck.
Price told jurors that Mohammadi spent five hours at the allotment on the day of the killing and was seen by two other plot holders. As a committee member, he had his own key to the mower shed, which had been locked from the outside with Adri-Soejoko’s body in it, with her keys in her pocket.
The defendant’s DNA was found on the part of lawnmower cord he allegedly used to strangle her.
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She said: 'Everything with the allotment tends to be quite passionate. People care. This AGM, there were a lot of people talking over one another.
'And my grandmother wasn't able to chair the meeting as she intended to. Rahim had been louder than the rest, by his general nature.
'So my grandmother had said, 'shut up', so she could chair the meeting. To which he took offence, and shouted at her.
'One of the insults she specifically said was he called her a '*****' in front of everyone.
'I guess she was concerned about it.
'He referred to her as a '*advertiser censored****g *advertiser censored*', before he left the meeting.'
She added: 'She was definitely concerned. She definitely knew there was something wrong with that situation.
'And I knew she felt she had a role to play in him reacting like that to her, which upset me.
'She had told me not to tell the rest of the family about that incident, but I did tell my mum. She didn't want them to worry.'
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DNA of a second man, Mubarick Duat, was also identified on the victim's hand but police he had been "thoroughly investigated" and had no connection with the defendant, victim or the allotment.
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Prosecutor John Price QC told jurors: “The DNA of Mr Duat on the right hand of Mrs Adri-Soejoko is likely to have got there not very long before her hand was swabbed and, if during her life, not long before she died.”
Mr Duat became a second suspect and was “thoroughly investigated”, the court was told, but no connection with the defendant, victim or the allotment was found.
On the day of the killing, police established that he was working as a kitchen porter at a Covent Garden restaurant and then went to Croydon, according to mobile phone data.
He later bought a National Express bus ticket at Victoria in central London and took a coach to Stockton the following day, jurors heard.
Mr Price said: “However it got there, and even if it was on the 27th, the DNA of Mubarick Duat found on the right hand of Mrs Adri-Soejoko could not, in light of the other evidence, have been deposited as a result of direct contact on that day between her and him. He could not have been involved in her murder, whether acting alone or with anyone else.”
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