Bloody footprint snared 'killer' 30 years after woman was knifed over 140 times at her home in 'savage' attack | O6PG09T | 2024-01-31 06:08:01
Marina Koppell, 39, was discovered butchered by her husband David on August eight, 1994, in Marylebone, central London.
A BLOODY footprint helped snare an alleged killer 30 years after a lady was knifed to demise in her residence in a "savage" assault, a courtroom heard.
Marina Koppell, 39, was discovered butchered by her husband David on August eight, 1994, in Marylebone, central London.
She had been stabbed greater than 140 occasions in the course of the attack with the Previous Bailey informed there was blood "all over the place".
Jurors heard how Sandip Patel, 51, was charged with murder last yr after his foot was matched to a bloody print left on a skirting board in the room where Marina died.
His DNA was also matched to a hair discovered on a ring that the mum-of-two had been sporting on the time, it was stated.
Opening his trial at this time, prosecutor William Emlyn Jones KC stated: "Marina Koppel was brutally murdered.
"It has taken a really long time to unravel it, but we now have proof that she had this defendant's hair stuck to the ring she was sporting when she was attacked and killed; and his naked foot was pressed towards the skirting board subsequent to her.
"And that, the prosecution say, can only be because it was him who killed her all these years in the past."
The court was advised Marina, who was from Colombia, rented the London flat as a result of she labored as a masseuse and a intercourse employee.
Although her husband David didn't "necessarily approve" of her work, he "accepted it", it was stated.
On the night time she was killed, he had pushed to the capital from his house in Northampton after Marina did not answer his calls.
David, who died in 2005 without ever discovering his spouse's killer, discovered Marina in a bedroom with a number of stab wounds.
Jurors heard a plastic bag was also discovered at the scene that contained Patel's fingerprints.
However the alleged killer's dad ran a nearby store so the evidence was deemed not robust enough, it was stated.
In 2008, a scientist discovered the hair on the ring however DNA advances weren't robust enough at the time to be able to discover a match.
It was solely in 2022 that officers have been capable of hyperlink both the jewellery and the bloody footprint to Patel, it was stated.
Mr Emlyn Jones added: "You might have little hassle concluding that if these footprints have been made in Marina's moist blood, then that may solely be as a result of they have been left by her killer – somebody who was in that room, barefoot, on the time of her blood being on the skirting board.
"All these years later, they have been identified – they are the defendant's prints – they have been made by the only of his left foot."
Patel denies murder. The trial continues.
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