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HUSBAND GUILTY OF NISHA MURDER

Nisha with her killer husband Fadi

Wednesday May 28,2008

By Nicola McCafferty for express.co.uk

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THE cheating husband of special constable Nisha Patel-Nasri has today been found guilty of her brutal murder.

Fadi Nasri, 34, was convicted of orchestrating the killing of his 29-year-old wife who was stabbed to death outside their home in north London in May 2006.

The former escort agency boss wanted her dead so he could pay off debts of more than £100,000 with her life insurance policy and because he was having an affair with a Lithuanian prostitute.

Michael Worsley QC, prosecuting, told the Old Bailey that Nasri and his wife were “openly affectionate to each other, on the face of things.

“But she confided to a close friend that she was considering divorcing Nasri.

Nisha died on her doorstep

“Unknown to all those people who have described them as the happiest people they’d ever seen, Nasri was leading a double life.”

Nasri was regularly visiting prostitutes and began a “passionate” affair with one of them, a Lithuanian called Laura Mockiene.

On the night of her murder Nasri arranged for his wife to be at their home in Wembley alone.

The court heard that Nasri gave his front door keys to the hired knifeman – Jason Jones – before leaving to go out and play snooker.

Jones then entered the house and stabbed Nisha in the upper groin with her own 13-inch kitchen knife.

The blade penetrated an artery and left her spilling pools of blood across her driveway as she screamed: “He’s following me.”

Nisha was then left to bleed to death on the doorstep.

Hundreds later attended her funeral to pay their respects to the “bubbly and energetic” hard-working hairdresser, who was 29 when she died.

Afterwards Nasri played the part of the grieving husband and publicly appealed for information about his wife’s death.

But within weeks he was secretly visiting his mistress again and he later moved into the flat he was already renting for her at Alderman Court, Barnet, and sold his marital home for £410,000.

Detective Chief Inspector Nick Scola, who led the investigation, described Nasri’s actions as “the final betrayal”.

“Nisha was an innocent and loving wife who was murdered so that her unfaithful and selfish husband could lead a luxury lifestyle with his younger mistress,” he added.

The hitman, drug dealer Rodger Leslie, who was hired by Nasri to organise the killing, and knifeman Jason John were also charged with her murder.

Today Nisha's brother Katen Patel spoke out after Nasri's conviction.

He said: “I’m glad justice has been done for my sister but it will never ever bring Nisha back.

“She was always hard-working, she was very kind to people and very generous. She was always full of energy, always one of those people who wanted to look after someone, or help somebody.

“Everybody can see her photographs, she’s always smiling with warmth in her eyes, she was always bubbly with a cheeky smile on her face; that expression speaks a thousand words."

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