Cold case killer caught after bloody footprint found near home of Sherlock Holmes
by Harry Stedman
Feb 16, 2024
3 minutes
A killer whose bloody footprints were used to solve a 30-year-old murder where the victim was stabbed more than 140 times near the 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
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