Marina Koppel was stabbed more than 140 times by Sandip Patel, who must serve a minimum 19 years.
A man whose bloody footprint tied him to the murder of a woman almost 30 years ago has been jailed for life.
He was convicted of murder at the Old Bailey on Thursday and sentenced earlier to a minimum 19-year jail term.Mr Justice Cavanagh sentenced him using guidelines that were in place when the crime occurred in 1994. Earlier in the trial, the court was told a bloody footprint found at the scene matched that of Patel, from St John's Wood in north London.
Her husband, who lived in Northampton, "did not necessarily approve" of her work but "accepted it", jurors were told.
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