Judge says killer’s refusal to come into the dock proves his lack of remorse

A killer who was nailed by a hair trapped in a murdered sex worker’s gold ring was today accused of ‘moral cowardice’ by a judge for refusing to attend his sentencing hearing. Marina Koppel, 39, was found dead by her husband in her apartment in Chiltern Street, Marylebone, on 8 August 1994. The mother-of-two, who worked as a masseuse, was still in her lacy underwear and had been stabbed 140 times in a ‘frenzied’ attack. The crime went unsolved until…