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Stabbed Pc had seen 'intruders' | Stabbed Pc had seen 'intruders' |
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A special constable said she saw intruders at her home days before she was stabbed to death, her brother has told the Old Bailey. | A special constable said she saw intruders at her home days before she was stabbed to death, her brother has told the Old Bailey. |
Katen Patel said his sister Nisha Patel-Nasri found some men inside the front porch of her home late at night. | Katen Patel said his sister Nisha Patel-Nasri found some men inside the front porch of her home late at night. |
Ms Patel-Nasri and her husband, Fadi Nasri, behaved like "lovebirds" but Mr Patel saw a change in Mr Nasri after the stabbing and came to "detest" him. | |
Mr Nasri, 34, from Barnet, north London, denies his wife's murder. | |
He is accused of organising her stabbing in May 2006. | |
Diamond watch | |
Mr Patel said his sister said the intruders came looking for someone called Paul but left when she said nobody by that name lived there. | |
Speaking about his sister's relationship with her husband, Mr Patel said: "Their relationship was like two lovebirds." | |
But after the murder Mr Nasri "kept disappearing" and soon Mr Patel came to "detest" him, the court heard. | |
The day after her stabbing, as she was being treated in hospital, her husband went back to their home to get some socks and a diamond watch, Mr Patel told the court. | |
Escort agency | |
Mr Patel also said that months before his sister's death Mr Nasri, who ran a limousine business, had been threatened by a woman after a business deal went wrong and she also warned she would "slit your wife's throat". | |
Mr Nasri had also started a dating agency which Mr Patel perceived to be an escort agency. | |
The court has been told Mr Nasri was having an affair and wanted to cash in a £350,000 life insurance policy. | |
It is claimed he used drug dealer Rodger Leslie as a go-between to organise the killing by nightclub doorman Jason Jones, driven to the scene by a fourth man, Tony Emmanuel. | It is claimed he used drug dealer Rodger Leslie as a go-between to organise the killing by nightclub doorman Jason Jones, driven to the scene by a fourth man, Tony Emmanuel. |
Mr Leslie, 38, of Barnet, Mr Emmanuel, 42, of East Ham, east London, and Mr Jones, 36, of Manor Park, east London, all deny murder. | |
The case continues. | The case continues. |