Baker Street killer who stabbed woman to death near Sherlock Holmes' home jailed for life
by Harry Stedman
Feb 16, 2024
3 minutes
A killer whose bloody footprints were used to solve a 30-year-old murder near the fictional home of Sherlock Holmes has been jailed for life.
Sandip Patel, who helped at his father’s newsagent Sherlock Holmes News on Baker Street in London, stabbed 39-year-old Marina Koppel more than 140 times in her rented flat in nearby Chiltern Street on August 8 1994.
The then 21-year-old student’s finger marks were found on a carrier bag in Colombian-born Mrs Koppel’s kitchen but he
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