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<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>British husband convicted of strangling wife at their home in Middlesbrough, UK, early in the year to be with his Aussie boyfriend</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Mitesh Patel, a 37-year-old pharmacist, injected his wife Jessica Patel, 34, with insulin and strangled her with a bag on May 14</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Patel then staged a robbery at their home, ransacking the rooms to make it appear as if Jessica had interrupted a burglar </strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>The errant husband allegedly spent five years planning the murder </strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>He planned to start a family with his boyfriend, Amit Patel, in Sydney with his wife’s frozen embryos and $2.54 million in life insurance</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Jury convicted Patel in less than three hours of premeditated murder of his wife, Jessica</strong></span></h6>
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<p>A British pharmacist who suffocated wife using a plastic shopping bag to run off with gay Grindr lover and $2.54million [£2m] life insurance payout caught after iPhone health app caught him staging the murder as a home invasion.<br />
Mitesh Patel, 37, strangled Jessica, 34, at their home in Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, in May and then staged a break-in.</p>
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<p data-page="1">The heartless husband was convicted of strangling his wife to death in May to begin a new life in Australia with the gay lover her met on dating app Grindr.</p>
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<p>Jurors needed less than three hours to find Mitesh Patel guilty of the premeditated murder of his wife, Jessica, with a plastic bag after spending five years planning her killing.</p>
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<div class="teads-ui-components-label">His goal was to start a family with his boyfriend, Amit Patel, in Sydney with his wife’s frozen embryos and $2 million in life insurance, reported <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tees-46445580" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BBC News</a>.</div>
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<p>Court testimony revealed Jessica had been aware that her husband had been cruising the social phone app Grindr in search of casual sex with men.</p>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-302265" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Mitesh-Patel-stages-the-robbery-in-his-after-murdering-his-wife-1.jpg" alt="Mitesh Patel stages the robbery in his after murdering his wife 1.jpg" width="960" height="641" />Mitesh Patel, after strangling his wife staged the scene inside their Middlesbrough home to look like a home invasion robbery gone bad</strong></h6>
<h6><strong> <img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-302266" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Mitesh-Patel-stages-the-robbery-in-his-after-murdering-his-wife-2.jpg" alt="Mitesh Patel stages the robbery in his after murdering his wife 2" width="960" height="641" />The Patel&#8217;s home had been staged to look like a break-in</strong></h6>
<p>During the three-week trial, shocking evidence was presented that Patel subdued his wife with a shot of insulin before strangling her at their home in Linthorpe, northern England. Forensics showed he had carried out online research about strangulation and the effects of insulin.</p>
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<p>He then staged a robbery at their home, ransacking the rooms to make it appear as if Jessica had interrupted a burglar.</p>
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<p>“No! Jess! Come on, baby, wake up! Mitesh Patel can be heard telling an emergency worker on May 14.</p>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-302270" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Mitesh-Patel-2.jpg" alt="Mitesh Patel 2" width="960" height="914" />British pharmacist Mitesh Patel [photo], was convicted of the murder of his wife at Teesside Crown Court, UK on Tuesday</strong></h6>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-302267" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Jessica-Patel-1.jpg" alt="Jessica Patel 1" width="960" height="1358" />Victim: Jessica Patel , 34, and her husband met in college and both worked at their pharmacy in Middlesbrough, UK</strong></h6>
<p>The couple ran a successful pharmacy together but their marriage was unhappy, with the husband repeatedly seeking sex with men he met on the Grindr dating app.<br />
And he was secretly in a relationship with his &#8220;soulmate&#8221; Dr Amit Patel, who had emigrated to Sydney and with whom he hoped to bring up his and Jessica&#8217;s IVF baby after her death.<br />
The husband was convicted of her murder after data from his iPhone health app showed how he had frantically climbed up and down stairs while staging the break-in.<br />
CCTV footage from outside the couple&#8217;s home also showed Jessica entering the property for the final time and no-one else coming or going until the body was discovered.</p>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-302264" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Amit-Patel-1.jpg" alt="Amit Patel 1.jpg" width="720" height="960" />Mitesh Patel killed his wife because he was planning to start a new family with his gay lover Dr Amit Patel [photo], who had emigrated to Sydney, Australia</strong></h6>
<p>Patel’s deception was uncovered after cops examined his and his wife’s phones on that day.</p>
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<p>Prosecutors claim his motivation was to flee his stringent Hindu upbringing and start anew with Amit Patel.</p>
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<p>“I should have been honest with myself and I should not have married Jess,” testified Patel during his trial. “I cannot explain how I felt. It was the fear of being exposed as an Asian gay man, that was one thing and the other was that I was not going to let Jess down. I had married Jess and all her dreams were going to come to a crashing end.”</p>
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<p>Family members were at a loss to make sense of her death.</p>
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<p>“(Jessica) had simple dreams,” read a family statement. “All she ever wanted was to fall in love, have a family of her own and live happily ever after.”</p>
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British pharmacist is convicted of strangling his wife to be with his Australian gay lover
