Murderer faces life sentence for killing 30 years ago because of hair found in victim’s gold ring

A killer who was nailed by a hair trapped in a murdered sex worker’s gold ring is facing a life sentence. 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 a cold case review in 2022 when the hair was matched…

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