The Murder Of Nisha Patel Nasri

After being given the murder of Nisha Patel-Nasri to study, the initial starting point was to gather as much information as possible about the case, a YouTube documentary (real crime UK 2010) on the case and investigation leading to the arrest and sentence of Fadi nasri and the other men involved gave us a good starting point for the investigation. The discovery of this documentary and the depth it went into created a feeling of intrigue and a form of excitement toward the case and the want to find out more. To do this we split our investigation up between the group into the key area, the suspects, the victim, the investigation, the trial and outcomes and any key changes in the law due to the case, everyone in the group was enthusiastic about the case and eager to get started. The area which I was studying was the trial and outcome for the suspects/offenders, this was an area I was keen to look into, as a law student I felt I could use my pre-existing knowledge of the law and the legal system to help analysis the case outcomes, and look into the judge’s decisions, appeal cases and convictions. As a fairly recent case, 2006, and not being hugely influential in current law it was difficult to find many books or journals on the case, a problem which many of the group found studying their respective areas, this therefore meant we had to be more creative in the references we used. As I was researching the outcomes I went to the legal website of west law to see if the case was reported on their unfortunately the main case involving Fadi, Jason, Roger and Tony was not reported by the website, but reported was the appeal of Roger Leslie (R v Leslie) the following year. This allowed me to uncover some of the what the judge and Roger, one o...

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...ff the slide or was on it very briefly enabling us to explain in our own words what had gone on in the case or what we had found out through the research. Unfortunately there was elements of our work that didn’t come across during our presentation as strongly as we’d hoped especially regarding linking the research we had done and the theories on homicide we had learnt, for example 2 of the three men convicted were part of a subculture of violence, this is show through the lack of remorse they showed in court and during questioning they answered as if they were used to the environment, and the third, Fadi, would fit into the strain theory he needed money and believed he couldn’t achieve this through legitimate means the only way he was going to get himself up in social classes and have the ability to almost start again was through the murder of his wife.