Lying husband ordered wife's killing

5:08pm Wednesday 28th May 2008

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A WEMBLEY man has been found guilty of murdering special constable Nisha Patel-Nasri.

Fadi Nasri, 34, wanted his 29-year-old wife dead so he could use her £350,000 life insurance to pay off his debts and start a new life with blonde prostitute Laura Mockiene.

Nasri gave Jason Jones the keys to their Sudbury Avenue home, where the 36-year-old hitman stabbed Mrs Patel-Nasri in the leg with her own kitchen knife.

She managed to get out on to her driveway but bled to death before emergency services could reach her.

Nasri recruited Jones through underworld contact Rodger Leslie, 38, a notorious heroin dealer, who was driven to the house by Tony Emmanuel, 42.

But Jones made a fatal error when CCTV cameras caught him dropping the murder weapon into the drain as he left the scene on the night of May 11, 2006.

The cameras also showed the Audi A4 getaway car which was registered in the name of Emmanuel's girlfriend.

Emmanuel was arrested and he named Jones as the knifeman.

Phone records linked all four accomplices to each other and showed Leslie rang Nasri just minutes after the killing.

Jones and Leslie were today found guilty of murder alongside Nasri, who played the grieving husband at press conferences after the murder.

The businessman was photographed grinning as his 25-year-old girlfriend kissed him on the cheek in Lithuania just three months later.

Emmanuel was cleared of murder and manslaughter after insisting that, although he drove Jones and Leslie to the scene, he knew nothing of the sinister plot.

On hearing the verdicts Emmanuel jumped from his seat and ran out of the dock shouting "Lock the door boy" at prison guards.

Nasri shook his head on hearing the majority ten-to-two verdicts while Leslie muttered 'its a bit harsh'.

Judge Peter Beaumont QC, the Recorder of London, adjourned sentencing until Friday, June 20, at 10.30am, to allow the police to investigate Nasri and Leslie's finances.

Nasri tried to have his wife murdered five days before she died but the special constable confronted her killers as they tried to get into the house.

She insisted Nasri install CCTV at their home but her husband only ordered the security cameras on the day of the murder, knowing they would never arrive in time.

Nasri organised a game of snooker to give himself an alibi on the night of the murder, leaving his wife to count the takings of her hairdressing business and get ready for bed.

He told her to lock the doors as he left, knowing the hitman was on his way.

Nisha was in her pyjamas when Jones slipped into the house, in Sudbury Avenue, shortly before midnight, and stabbed her in the groin with a knife police believe was taken from the kitchen.

The jury of ten men and two women reached its majority verdicts after deliberating for more than 26 hours.

It has now been revealed that Nasri's father Farouk Mohammed Nasri, 54, who is suspected of killing his girlfriend and her son, hanged himself in his cell at Leicester Prison.

He was on remand after his girlfriend Jennifer Elverson, aged 28, and her son, Benjamin, seven died in a house fire at their home in Derby.

The father was accused of dousing them with petrol before setting the house ablaze.

He hung himself with bedsheets from his cell window along with fellow inmate, 23-year-old Carl Jacques after the horrific murder in November 2000.

He had tried to commit suicide two weeks before and Nasri slammed the prison service for not putting his father on suicide watch.