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you find your podcasts. (gentle music) - [Narrator] Death on the doorstep. A special police constable
killed in cold blood. - I knew there's no way
that she's gonna make this. - [Narrator] What first looked
like a burglary gone wrong became a tale of murder for hire. - He was what we may call an enforcer. - [Narrator] Tonight, the inside story of Nisha Patel's death, a tale of lust. - He clearly was, you know,
a lover of the ladies. - [Narrator] Of betrayal. - Someone has got to know something. - [Narrator] And murder in the family. - There's no words to
describe that betrayal because she loved him so much. She loved him so much. (suspenseful music) - [Narrator] Wembley,
bustling suburb of Britain's capital city, and a mecca for
a nation of football fans. Wembley's used to making
headlines on the sport's pages. But in the spring of 2006 it was to dominate the front pages. Shortly before midnight on May the 11th, police received reports of a stabbing in a quiet residential street. (dramatic music)
(sirens blaring) For the Met's Homicide
and Serious Crime Command this scene in Sudbury
Avenue would mark the start of a sensational investigation. For the victim was one of their own, Special Constable Nisha Patel-Nasri. - It was absolutely chaotic.
Obviously police everywhere. Cordon tapes, blood on the pavement, blood outside the home. - [Man] Initially we were
told it was a stab wound. And she'd lost a large amount of blood. - [Narrator] The 29-year-old Special had moved to the house only recently. Her husband, Fadi, had
been out playing snooker with a friend that night and he'd learned of the stabbing through a call to his mobile. (suspenseful music) - Fadi Nasri was extremely upset about what happened to his wife. There was blood on the
pavement outside the house, which he could have
seen from where he was. It was a huge shock to him. (fist pounding on door) - [Narrator] One street
away, Nisha's brother, Katen, was woken from his bed. (ominous music)
(heart beating) - I started running
towards my sister's house. I could see trails of blood
running up to the house. I've never seen that much
blood in my lifetime before. I knew there's no way that
she's gonna make this. - [Narrator] With Nisha's
life hanging by a thread, paramedics rushed her to
Northwick Park Hospital in Middlesex.
(sirens blaring) Katen and Fadi followed,
waiting anxiously for news. - Within five minutes the
doctor came in and said, "She has lost a lot of blood,
we're trying our best." So they went back out the room. And within a minute they came back in. They shook their head. (machine beeping continuously) (suspenseful music) - [Narrator] 30 minutes after
being admitted to hospital, Nisha Patel-Nasri was pronounced dead. Killed by a single knife
wound to the groin. - It was my little
sister who I was supposed to protect and look after. And I felt I had failed. I put my hand on Fadi's
shoulder and I said to him, "Don't worry, I'll look after you now." - [Narrator] The police were now dealing with the murder of a fellow officer. By the next day, her death
was leading the national news. (suspenseful music) - [Reporter] Fighting for her community, the special constable
murdered on her doorstep. Nisha Patel-Nasri's
passion was tackling crime in her neighborhood. It ended in tragedy, just yards
from the safety of her home. - [Narrator] As the media
descended on Sudbury Avenue, DCI Nick Scola and his team
being analyzing the crime scene. - When you looked inside the house, everything seemed to be orderly. There was no sign of any forced entry. And nothing seemed to be stolen either. - The blood started in the parking area outside the front door so it looked like she'd been stabbed there. In the kitchen there
were two knife blocks. One of them was a John Lewis knife block. Missing from that was a
rather large kitchen knife. So automatically we
started looking at that potentially as the murder weapon, or something that the suspect
may have taken away from them. - [Narrator] While the forensics
team searched for clues, other officers began
collecting witness statements. The most significant came from a neighbor who had seen a man feeling
immediately after the stabbing. - The witness describe
him as a thick-set man, possibly Afro-Caribbean, with a hood up. And they ran away from the
scene without looking back. - [Narrator] Two other witnesses described seeing a similar figure before the attack. - They saw a man walk past them twice. He had clearly been
walking around the block before he turned toward Nisha's house, and they heard screaming
a little while afterwards. - These were useful leads about to become even more promising
because police soon learned there'd been an attempted break-in at the house five days earlier. According to Nisha's brother Katen, two men tried to trick her into opening up and then used a crowbar in an attempt to force the lock before leaving. One of those men sounded
strikingly familiar. (suspenseful music) - One of the males was described as a large-built black male with a hood. So they matched the description of the man who'd been seen running away
from the scene on the 11th. - The attempted break-in
the Saturday before is too big a coincidence not to be linked. - [Narrator] Following
this unsettling incident, Katen begged Nisha to leave her house and return to live with him. - But the way Nisha is, she
wanted to stay where she was. She's like, "This is my
house, I'll protect my house." She was a bit too brave for her own good. (suspenseful music) - [Narrator] On the night of the murder, the intruder appeared to have known that the door frame was
too strong to break down. So he had used a simpler method of entry. (door creaking) - One of the things that we were told from the early stage by Fadi Nasri was there was a key missing. It was possibly the key that had been used to get into the address. (glass shattering) - Fadi? (suspenseful music) (Nisha gasps) (Nisha groans) - [Narrator] Detectives
now had a description of the attacker and an explanation of how he'd had gained entry. But why had he killed Nisha? A burglary gone wrong did
not seem to fit the evidence. (suspenseful music) - In the sitting room there
was a large amount of money, 350 pounds, and there
were the credit cards and checkbooks there and
Nisha's phones were there. If it'd been a robbery or
if it'd been a burglary then it was likely those
things would have been taken. - Because nothing had
been stolen from the house and the vehicles outside
hadn't been interfered with, finding a motive was clearly
a very important step towards solving the murder. - [Narrator] The day after Nisha's death a possible motive did emerge. Police obtained a recording
of a menacing phone call made to Nisha's husband
Fadi just weeks earlier. It suggested that both their
lives were under threat. - [Caller] You've made the biggest mistake of your (bleep) life, because your throat will be slit tonight. So get your (bleep) bitch of
a wife our of your house now. And I'm not joking. You have (bleep) with the
wrong person here, pal. (bleep) with the wrong person. (suspenseful music) - [Narrator] 24 hours after the murder of Special Constable Nisha Patel-Nasri and the investigation was gathering pace. Police had identified a
possible murder weapon missing from her kitchen. And they had a description
of a hooded suspect seen running away from the house. But as they search for a
motive, Nisha's husband Fadi delivered some extraordinary information. There'd been death
threats against them both, and he had the proof. - He spoke to me about
an incident he'd had in relation to a business deal with a woman who lived in Scotland. (suspenseful music) - [Narrator] Fadi and Nisha
ran a limousine hire company from their home. Two months before the murder they had sold one of their rental vehicles
to a Scottish company. But the deal had gone sour. - Part of the deal was that in the future the car would be returned to
Fadi for a short period of time so he could complete a number of rentals that he had set in place. But unfortunately, because
the car had been sold to them in not good condition, they
refused to return it to him. - [Narrator] A few days later
Fadi had driven to Scotland and tracked down the limousine. He then repossessed it,
driving it back south without the new owner's knowledge. When they did discover what Fadi had done they left him in no doubt
about their feelings. - [Caller] If you value your
life and your wife's life and your health you'll
return my (bleep) car now. - He had with him a mobile phone and he'd recorded the
conversation with this woman. - [Fadi] Right, this is
a civil matter in court. - [Caller] No, this isn't.
No, I'm telling you. If you don't return that car I'm gonna come down to your house and your legs are going to be broken and this is no idle threat. It's my (bleep) car, you stupid bastard. Now, I want my car back
now or you're (bleep) dead. And your wife's gonna
be (bleep) dead and all. - I took the phone from Mr. Nasri because I didn't want to play it again. And that was taken away from him to download the content of
the telephone conversation. It appeared to be a logical conclusion that these people may
have come down to London and stabbed Nisha. - [Narrator] As this promising
line of inquiry was pursued, police also began building
up a detailed picture of their victim. It emerged that Nisha,
a British-born Asian, had lived in Wembley
for almost all her life. She was well known locally
and had no known enemies. - Nisha was always the
bubbly one, running around. She as a godmother to four children; three girls and one boy. She loved children, you know, and she would do anything for children. She would take them out and
she would buy them gifts. She would help organize
their birthday parties. - [Narrator] Since the age of
18, Nisha had run Perfections, a successful hair dressing salon with more than 2,000 regular clients. At 26 she married Fadi. And to those who knew them they
were a happy, loving couple. - Nisha was very happy with Fadi. He was a really affectionate. If you saw them in public,
they're very physical. They didn't care who was around. They were happy at the time, yeah. - [Narrator] Despite her
busy work and home life, Nisha enjoyed sport,
particularly swimming. She also found time to volunteer as an unpaid special constable. - She just basically said to me that, "I want to be able to let
kids play on the streets "without their parents having to worry "whether their kids are
gonna come home at night." And she wanted to provide
a safe environment for the community, and she
wanted to be part of it. (suspenseful music) - [Narrator] The task of
filling in Nisha's background fell to the Police Family
Liaison Officer Sid Shenoy. His job also involved
taking routine statements about everyone's movements
on the night of the murder. And that included her
grieving husband, Fadi. - I asked him to recount
everything from the previous day. He said he went around to
where Nisha's workplace was, met up with Nisha, Nisha had then cut his and her brother Katen's hair. Following on from that
they'd come back home. He said he'd left the salon
at about 11 or five past 11. - [Narrator] It was the day after their third wedding anniversary. Fadi had prepared a meal for his wife. After they'd finished eating
he'd planned to meet a friend for a game of snooker. - He said Nisha told him
to go out and play snooker. So he asked her if she
was sure and she said, "Yes, I told him not to be too long." - [Narrator] Fadi said he
picked up is snooker partner at around 11:40 p.m. He then received two subsequent calls. The first at 11:56 p.m. was
from a potential customer inquiring about limousine hire. The second, barely five minutes later, was about Nisha's stabbing. - He's walking toward the snooker club, he gets the phone call informing him about his wife's assault. - Detectives tracked
down his snooker partner. His version of Fadi's movements on the night of the murder checked out. Three days after the murder
the investigation had stalled. The kitchen knife was still missing, forensic tests at the
scene had drawn a blank, and worse still, detective concluded the menacing phone call from Scotland was nothing more than
an angry idle threat. So detectives decided to make a public appeal for information, asking both Nisha's husband
and brother to appear on TV. Both agreed, though their
behavior was markedly different. - Katen was not nervous
in front of the camera, was openly talking about Nisha. - She was always, always there for me at the end of the line,
just around the corner. She was just... She did pretty much everything
for me, as a sister. - Whereas Fadi came
across as very nervous. His mouth was dry. He just
seemed to be struggling, really. - Someone has got to know something. Who lives around them, a
neighbor, or seen some blood or someone acting suspiciously or nervous. It might not be important,
but just give us a call and let us know.
(suspenseful music) - [Narrator] Despite
the widespread exposure, the appeal was unsuccessful. The police returned to square one, launching a new effort to find
the missing murder weapon. - I wasn't prepared to stop looking for it until it became totally impractical to search further afield. So we just kept going. Searching gardens, dustbins,
railway embankments, a churchyard, cutting down undergrowth and just gradually widening
those search parameters. - [Narrator] After two weeks
of fruitless searching, the team were on the verge of giving up. Then, a breakthrough. - Finally, what we did
is we searched the drains in Sudbury Avenue and
the surrounding streets. On the 25th of May, in Harrowdene Road, at the junction of East Lane, we found, in the drains, the knife. (suspenseful music) - Just had a call from the crime scene. - It was almost disbelieving, because I was beginning to think we weren't going to find it. It was a very exciting
moment in the investigation. It was the first real step forward. (suspenseful music) - [Narrator] To prevent
the killer finding out the police kept the discovery
of the knife from the media. The only people they
told were Katen and Fadi. - Told them that the knife
would be sent off to the lab for analysis, but I said,
"Please do not inform anyone "about the finding of this knife, "because that leak could
jeopardize the investigation." - Well I was so happy that we
finally had a breakthrough. I thought, "Okay, come
on, at least let there be "a fingerprint on there, or let there be "some sort of DNA on there." You know something that can pinpoint and find who these people were. - [Narrator] While the knife
underwent forensic tests, Fadi also appeared keen to learn as much as possible about developments. - I had nonstop phone calls from him asking me if we had found
anything on the knife, any DNA, any fingerprints, et cetera. And my only answer to Fadi was if I had anything relevant
to tell him, I would. - Thanks, man. - [Narrator] But the results from the lab would prove disappointing. The only DNA belonged to Nisha. And the only fingerprint
was of an old friend of hers who had visited some time before. Detectives now switched
their focus to the drain where the knife was found. - Someone had to put the knife there. So how are we gonna find
out who put it there? We look for CCTV. And probably the only drain
in the whole search area that was covered by CCTV was that one. - [Narrator] The team
were able to retrieve the camera's footage from
the night of Nisha's murder. - While the CCTV didn't
cover the drain itself, it did allow us to see
that a car had pulled up out of camera shot, that would
have been next to the drain. We could tell from that footage and from the way that the
headlights were shining onto the back of that parked car the car had stopped there
for seven or eight seconds before moving off. And clearly that was too
much of a coincidence not for it to have been involved in the deposition of
that knife in that drain. You can then see that
car slowly maneuvering back into the main traffic lanes. So we get a view of the side
and the rear of that car. - [Narrator] The car was identified as a silver Audi A4 saloon. It appeared to have been circling the area on the night of the killing. - We carried on viewing the CCTV and we saw the same car
shortly before the murder. - [Narrator] The footage was too grainy to read the car's number plate, but two vital elements
made the Audi stand out. - There were two unique
things about the car. One was it had an aerial. That's unique, because on the Audi A4s they don't have an aerial on the roof. (suspenseful music) The second thing was one of the rear number plate lights wasn't working. So these are fairly unique
things that made it a car that we felt we could find
if we searched for it. - [Narrator] But finding
the Audi wouldn't be easy. There were more than 18,000 of
them in the southeast alone. - Officers were given post codes to visit and then they would go
and look at every Audi in the post code that
matched that description. And as police officers,
it became a guiding thing that if you saw an Audi you
would go and look at it. - [Narrator] As the
investigation continued, Nisha's family, friends, and colleagues faced another ordeal. On June the 1st, 2006, they
said their final farewells. - Nisha's funeral was so surreal. There was so many people
and everybody was so sad. Everybody was so sad. (tender, somber music) - As with all funerals,
the bereaved relatives relied on each other for support throughout the emotional day. But was this family as
united as it seemed? Shortly afterwards, police
made an accidental discovery which was to shed new and disturbing light on the relationship between
Nisha and her husband. The key was Fadi's mobile phone, which he had given to
detectives when he told them about the threatening phone
calls he had received. (suspenseful music) While reexamining the phone,
one officer stumbled across some intriguing photographs. - On that phone we recovered some images. One was the image of the
face of a white female. And there was another which
was obviously a white leg. We realized that that
couldn't have been Nisha. And the background to where that leg was looked like a hotel room because you had a mirror at the back,
and the linen in the room looked like it was a hotel room. - I went to meet Fadi again and asked him if he was having an
affair, as that potentially could give us additional motives or reasons for his wife's death. He looked straight back at me and said, "No, Nick, I would never do that to Nisha. "I loved her too much." - [Narrator] But Fadi was lying. Within hours he called
the family liaison officer to change his story. - He explained to me that he
was having a relationship. And I asked him when that
relationship had begun. - [Narrator] Fadi, the grieving husband, had been hiding a secret lover. And crucially, their affair had begun just months before Nisha's death. The police had a new suspect. - Clearly we needed to
know about this mistress. Could she potentially have
had a motive to attack Nisha, if not kill her? (suspenseful music) - [Narrator] Three months
after the fatal stabbing of Special Constable Nisha Patel, the police made an unsettling discovery. Her husband, Fadi, had
been having an affair that started just months
before her murder. (ominous music) - We established that Fadi's girlfriend was called Laura Mockiene. She was a Lithuanian
national and had been working in the UK in a brothel. - Fadi met Laura when she was working as a prostitute in Victoria. And then they'd formed a relationship and she basically stopped charging him. - [Narrator] At least one
of the investigation team wasn't surprised that Fadi
had cheated on his wife. - I'd be around Fadi from time-to-time and he was quite flirtatious
and charming towards me. He clearly was, you know,
a lover of the ladies. - [Narrator] Police soon
established that 26-year-old Laura was no casual fling. Investigations revealed
that before Nisha's death Fadi had even taken her
on a secret holiday. - Shortly before the
murder he went to Egypt. He told his family that he
had a sick uncle in Cairo. We looked at the flight manifest. On the flight leaving and
on the flight coming back was Laura Mockiene's name. - [Narrator] Initially
the police suspected Laura of being involved in the murder, but she turned out to
have a cast iron alibi. The fact that Fadi had lied
about their relationship didn't make him a suspect either. But news of his affair devastated Nisha's family and friends. - I couldn't believe that he was capable of doing what he did. I never expected that for one minute. - I feel stupid for hugging
him when I found out Nisha died because I thought
he had lost something, but it just made you think, you haven't lost anything, really, 'cause you've got another
life that we never knew about. - [Narrator] News of the
affair also prompted police to dig deeper into Fadi's background. They discovered that he had served a nine-month sentence for
dangerous driving in 1998, and that more recently
he had a questionable way of making a living. - Fadi had worked for a pizza
company for a number of years, and after that he started
a car cleaning company. He then, apparently, had
started an escort agency called Seventh Heaven. - [Narrator] When Nisha first met him, Fadi was running Seventh
Heaven from his mobile phone, with girls working from
his one-bedroom flat. - Nisha was aware of this
escort agency business, although she did not approve of it. - She didn't like the escort agency at all 'cause it is, obviously, such
a dirty business to be in, and especially as she was
training for a special constable you don't want to be related
to something like this. - [Narrator] Nisha finally persuaded him to shut down the escort business and go into partnership with her instead. They would run a limousine
hire company together. Although, as police discovered, it was Nisha who financed it. - All the money came from Nisha. When they bought the
limousines the money used was money borrowed from Nisha's family. He did not give any money to the business. - [Narrator] Nisha had
also single-handedly raised 400,000 pounds to buy
the marital home in Wembley. - Fadi gave no money into that. And as far as we were aware, he didn't bring any
money into the marriage. - [Narrator] Nisha had confided to friends that while she loved Fadi, he wasn't much of a business partner. - Nisha actually used to
refer to Fadi as a dosser. He was really badly organized, he was always late. The only thing he was good at was driving. - [Narrator] Nisha's
relatives may once have been protective of her husband,
despite his laziness. But once they learned of his affair, things were different. Now they were happy to tell detectives about his strange
behavior since the murder. They revealed that
since he had handed over his mobile phone to
police he'd been obsessed about what they might find on it. - It really worried him to the point where he couldn't sleep. You know, "I'm really worried, you know, "the police have got my phone,
and I know some dodgy people, "and they're gonna
think I'm a bad person." - He kept saying to myself and everyone there's a lot of dodgy
people on his mobile phone. There's Turkish gangs
on there, Kurdish gangs. (suspenseful music) - [Narrator] Police soon
discovered that Fadi did indeed have contact phone numbers
for members of the underworld. They also discovered that
on the day of Nisha's murder he'd been called by a
well-known criminal figure. - In Fadi's phone, what became clear was there'd been contact on
the evening of the murder from a man called Roger Leslie. (ominous music) - [Narrator] Roger Leslie was
from Barnet in North London, a drug dealer with links to
the door keeping business. He was known to the police
and matched the description of the well-built black male
seen running from Nisha's house on the night she was murdered. - Roger Leslie had weapons convictions, which leads you to
think he may be involved in some violence. He was what you may call an enforcer. (phone ringing) - [Narrator] Phone records
showed that Leslie and Fadi had been in constant contact
on the day of the murder, the frequency of calls peaking around the time Nisha was stabbed. - I found that particularly suspicious and formed the opinion
that Roger Leslie must be in some way connected with Nisha's attack. There were no other intelligence links between Fadi and Roger Leslie, so I formed the opinion
that perhaps it was Leslie who had gone to their front door perhaps to collect a debt
or something similar. - [Narrator] In early December
police arrested Roger Leslie. DC Paul Webb led the interrogation. - He was a very frightening
looking character. 'Cause he's a very big guy and with is facial furniture he looked pretty startling, but, he was very quietly spoken
and very calm in interview. (suspenseful music) He said that the studs in his face each represented someone
who, close to him, that had been killed, I think
was the expression he used. - [Narrator] Throughout the
interrogation Leslie denied all involvement in the killing. But as the interviews dragged on, Nisha's family supplied the
police with more information about her husband's suspicious
behavior since the murder. - It was little snippets
like he'll get a phone call and he'll disappear for
about 15, 20 minutes so no one could hear his conversation. There was talk about him having received some mobile phone boxes within three, four, five
days after the murder. Someone else mentioned that he had been cutting up sim cards. Information like this kept coming in. (suspenseful music) - [Narrator] With their
suspicions deepening, police track down Fadi's secret phones and trawled through every call he had made in the seven months since the murder. On the day back in May when he had learnt of the discovery of the murder weapon, police identified a
familiar pattern of calls. - Fadi had picked up the
phone and rung Roger Leslie a total number of six times. And during that period Leslie
had rung Fadi up twice. This was obviously the
information which was being given to Leslie about the finding of the knife. - [Narrator] Officers
now attempted to find out if Leslie's mobile phone could be traced to the Wembley area on
the night of the murder. The results, however,
placed him miles away. - He can't possibly have been involved. - [Narrator] But then police discovered that apart from the
calls to and from Fadi, Leslie had also repeatedly
called a second mobile phone on the night of the killing. - Not only had Roger Leslie and Fadi been in telephone contact, they were almost mirrored exactly by calls to a telephone owned by a man called Tony Emmanuel. - [Narrator] Tony Emmanuel was
a low-level East End criminal with no known connection
to the Wembley area. Phone tracking proved he'd been there on the night Nisha died. With Fadi, Emmanuel, and Roger Leslie now firmly linked by their phone records, police had proof that despite his alibi, Nisha's husband was in constant touch with known criminals on
the night she was murdered. Something he had omitted
to tell detectives in any previous meeting. - Why he was holding
information back we didn't know. We don't know whether
he had been threatened, whether he was scared of someone. But he was obviously
withholding information from the inquiry. (suspenseful music) - [Narrator] While officers
prepared to question Fadi, they received news of a
stunning breakthrough. - Hey, hey, wait. Yeah, yeah. - [Narrator] Emmanuel owned
a silver Audi A4 saloon. - Excellent. Okay, bye-bye. - Our eureka moment was when we found out that Tony Emmanuel had
had possession of the car, which must have been the car
that had been captured on CCTV. - [Narrator] Tony Emmanuel's Audi A4 was seized and examined. Not only did it have the
distinctive roof aerial, one of its back number plate
lights was still broken. The police now had the car that had dumped the murder weapon just
yards from Nisha's home. - On the 6th of December we
then arrested Tony Emmanuel. Emmanuel was interviewed
over the course of that day and the following two days. He maintained he knew
nothing about the incident. (suspenseful music) - [Narrator] With two
prime suspects in custody it was now time to formally
question Fadi Nasri. Detectives invited him and his solicitor to a make-or-break meeting. - I was feeling quite
bullish when I met him. I really thought he would tell us what had happened on that day, why he felt he couldn't
tell us up to that point. And perhaps the mystery would
really unravel at that time. His reaction astonished me. - Had contact with him about five minutes before she was stabbed. - He burst into tears and
sobbed uncontrollably, making comments like, "I
know what it's all about "but I can't tell you now." And we sat with him for
around about three hours and we got no more out of him than that. - [Narrator] But as Fadi played for time Tony Emmanuel finally
revealed all to the police. - He just gave a short prepared statement saying yes he had been there, he'd believed at that
stage he had been employed to drive the car while someone else carried out a drugs transaction. He'd remained in the
car while someone else had gone to 20 Sudbury Avenue. He named that person as Jason Jones. (ominous music) - [Narrator] Jason Jones,
a bouncer and club promoter from Manor Park, Northeast London, had a fearsome reputation. For the police, Jones's
75 previous convictions, including several for violence, made him a man capable of murder. He also knew Roger Leslie. Emmanuel's testimony now went
on to reveal a damning fact. Jones, who perfectly
matched the description of the man fleeing the murder scene, had been inside the house that night. - He said that Jason Jones had told him there were piles of money lying around. We knew that was true, we
knew Nisha had been counting her takings from her hairdressing
business on the settee. That hadn't been released in the press and wasn't widely known. - [Narrator] The police
now believed they had the full picture. They suspected Fadi had paid Roger Leslie to organize the murder of his wife. Leslie, in turn, had
hired hitman Jason Jones to do the actual killing, with Emmanuel acting as the driver. But one question remained. Why would Fadi want Nisha dead? A forensic trawl through the
couple's financial records soon provided an answer. - They did not have
credit in their account. Their cards were heavily overdrawn. We realized they were
paying something in excess of 70 or 80,000 pounds in interest alone. - [Narrator] But there was more. Shortly before Nisha's murder,
Fadi had insured her life for 350,000 pounds. (suspenseful music) This policy, along with the
limo business and the house, meant he stood to make
nearly half a million pounds from his wife's death. Nine months after the brutal
murder of Nisha Patel-Nasri and police were looking
for the final evidence to charge her husband, Fadi. Detectives focused on the
first call he received while driving his friend to play snooker on the night of the killing. - His friend informed informed
us that he said to the person "I haven't got my book
and I can't help you." So he took that to be a phone call about a limousine booking. - [Narrator] But the record
showed clearly that the call wasn't from someone
inquiring about a limousine, it was from known criminal Roger Leslie. And just seconds earlier
Leslie had received a call from hitman Jason Jones from
near the scene of the murder. - When Fadi took that
call from Roger Leslie he was concealing the true
purpose of that telephone call, making it seem it was a business call, not the news that the murder of his wife had been carried out. (suspenseful music) - [Narrator] On the
27th of February, 2007, detectives arrested Fadi Nasri
for the murder of his wife. His interviews were
videotaped by the police. - [Interviewer] Did you plan
all along for Nisha to die? Nisha died on the pavement. You don't want to tell us what happened? Is there anything that you can say that would change our conclusion? Did you arrange with Roger Leslie to have your wife killed? - [Narrator] The man who
had appealed for information only months earlier now
refused to say a word. - [Interviewer] You still
haven't told us anything. And this is your final
opportunity to tell us. (suspenseful music) - [Narrator] Fadi Nasri
wasn't alone in his silence. Jason Jones also refused to talk. - [Officer] Did Nisha come down the stairs whilst you were there? - [Jason] No comment. - [Officer] Did she already
have the knife at that point? - [Jason] No comment. - [Officer] Or did you have the knife? - [Jason] No comment. - [Narrator] On February
the 28th, nine months after the murder, Fadi
Nasri joined Roger Leslie, Jason Jones, and Tony Emmanuel and was charged with Nisha's murder. - [Reporter] And in other news tonight, the husband of Special
Constable Nisha Patel was today charged with her murder. Fadi Nasri, a limousine driver
from Wembley, is believed... (suspenseful music) - [Narrator] A year later
the trial took place. In a packed courtroom
Fadi Nasri took the stand. But when confronted with the evidence his claims of innocence fell apart. - He absolutely got torn to pieces because the facts and the
evidence that were there, he couldn't provide a decent story. You could see the look on
the people's faces in court, you know that there's no way out. There was no way out at all. (suspenseful music) - [Reporter] Fadi Nasri, the husband of policewoman Nisha Patel, was today found guilty of her murder. His co-accused, Roger
Leslie and Jason Jones, were also convicted
after a four-month trial. - [Narrator] Tony Emmanuel
was acquitted of all charges, the jury believing his
story that he knew nothing of the murder and had been
hired simply as a driver. Roger Leslie and Jason
Jones were sentenced to life imprisonment. Leslie to serve at least
18 years and Jones 20. Fadi Nasri received a life term with a 20-year minimum tariff. - We're pleased with today's verdicts. These three dangerous and callous men will be in prison for a very long time. - No sentence given to the murderers will ever replace Nisha and
this outcome will never compare with the suffering its caused
or the magnitude of our loss. I am still absolutely- - [Narrator] The family
may have got justice but their ordeal wasn't over. In the days following the convictions, it was Nisha, not Fadi,
who made the headlines, and for all the wrong reasons. Based on her husband's former involvement with an escort agency, she was falsely accused of
profiting from the vice trade. - We did investigate Nisha's background as a matter of procedure. And she wasn't involved in any criminality and certainly wasn't
involved in any of the things that she was accused of by the media. - [Narrator] The truth was more simple. Two years before her death,
Nisha had inappropriately used her police warrant card to
help Fadi collect a debt owing to the agency. - The Metropolitan Police
fully investigated the matter and she was given a very stern warning that it should never happen
again under any circumstances. - [Narrator] This single
mistake was enough for some newspapers to
sully her entire reputation. - She became a special
constable to help and support the community from crime. And what's happening now is that her memory's just being trashed with lies. - She was dragged through
the mud by the press. It was unfair. It leaves you with a bad
taste in your mouth, really. - In reality, the real mistake Nisha made was to fall for the wrong man. She built a successful career, won the respect of her police colleagues, and the love of her family. But in the end it was the person she loved who betrayed her in the
most brutal way possible. - Fadi Nasri was an evil man. He left his wife in that
house to be murdered. - Fadi Nasri was a liar and a cheat who was prepared to have his
wife killed for financial gain. And as a consequence will spend the next 20 years of his life behind bars. - Nisha loved him. There's no words to
described that betrayal because she loved him so much. She loved him so much. (tender music)
