AN ALGERIAN man is set to stand trial in June over the murder of a mother-of-two in her Cricklewood flat.

Houssam Djeema, 23, appeared at the Old Bailey on Wednesday and denied murdering Jacqueline Barrett at her home in Whitefield Avenue in the early hours on December 11 last year.

Ms Barrett, 34, was strangled in the home where she lived with her children after being hit with a blunt object.

Mr Djeema was remanded in custody and is set to stand trial starting on June 6.