When Jessica Patel’s body was found lifeless and covered in duct tape in her home, her family assumed her tragic death had been the result of a burglary gone wrong.
The house was ransacked and Jessica’s belongings were all over the floor. Her throat crushed from strangulation. Her devastated sister Minal Patel tried to comfort her distraught husband Mitesh Patel. “I walked straight up to him” she says. “I sat down on the sofa next to him and went to hug him and he immediately buried his head in my shoulder.
At that point I thought he was genuinely crying. I was literally his shoulder to lean on.” Soon it became clear they were crocodile tears and just three days later, in May 2018, it was revealed that her murder was at the hands of then
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