Murder near Sherlock Holmes’ fictional home solved after 30 years thanks to footprint clue
The 30-year-old murder near the fictional home of Sherlock Holmes has been solved after the killer was snared with a bloody footprint.
Sandip Patel, who ran errands for his father’s newsagent Sherlock Holmes News on Baker Street in London, stabbed Marina Koppel more than 140 times in her rented flat in nearby Chiltern Street on August 8 1994.
The 21-year-old student’s finger marks were found on a carrier bag in Mrs Koppel’s kitchen but he was not treated as a suspect at the time.
He was charged with her murder last year after his DNA was matched to hair on the victim’s ring and he was linked by a bloody footprint on a skirting board.
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