Man jailed for life after arranging wife’s murder
Cheating husband jailed
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A CHEATING husband who had his “loyal and loving” special constable wife murdered so he could start a new life with his mistress was today jailed for life.
Fadi Nasri, 34, was told he must serve a minimum term of 20 years for arranging the murder of Nisha Patel-Nasri in May 2006.
The 29-year-old bled to death after being stabbed with a 13-inch kitchen knife at their home in Wembley, north London
Her husband wanted her dead to pay off spiralling debts of more than £100,000 with the couple’s £350,000 life insurance policy. The Lebanese-born limousine hire boss was secretly leading a double life and “spending money like water” on his Lithuanian mistress Laura Mockiene.
On the day after he and his wife’s third wedding anniversary, he left her at home alone to meet her violent end while he went out to play snooker.
She was stabbed by powerfully-built nightclub bouncer Jason Jones, who was given the job by Nasri’s friend, drug dealer Rodger Leslie.
Judge Peter Beaumont, the Recorder of London, told Nasri he had betrayed the trust he owed Nisha.
“She was a loyal, loving and supportive wife,” the judge said.
Leslie and Jones were also both jailed for life with minimum terms of 18 years and 20 years respectively.
Nasri, 34, of Alderman Court, Barnet, north London, Leslie, 38, of Chesterfield Flats, Bells Hill, Barnet, and Jones, 36, of Hathaway Crescent, Manor Park, east London, were all found guilty of murder by an Old Bailey jury last month.
Miss Mockiene watched proceedings from the public gallery.
Nasri showed no emotion as he was sentenced while Leslie and Jones had earlier walked out of the dock and refused to return.
The judge said Nasri left his wife “defenceless in her home as he exercised the alibi he had constructed for himself”.
He told Nasri: “There was a significant degree of planning and premeditation. That night she was vulnerable.”
It was a “gross abuse of the trust he owed her as her husband”.
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