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Driver and Accomplice Receive Prison Terms in London Nurse’s 2021 Killing

Investigators have yet to identify the masked gunmen who opened fire outside her Wateroak Drive home.

London police released this image of two suspects in the Sept. 10, 2021, shooting death of London nurse Lynda Marques at her upscale northwest London house. (Supplied)

Overview

  • Ammar Patel pleaded guilty to manslaughter for driving the getaway vehicle and was sentenced to life in prison with parole eligibility after seven years.
  • Osman Afandy admitted to being an accessory after the fact and was handed a five-and-a-half-year prison sentence earlier this month.
  • Court heard that security camera footage of the shooting and the five-minute wait for first responders was entered as evidence during Patel’s sentencing hearing.
  • Lynda Marques, a 30-year-old nurse, was sprayed with 13 bullets on Sept. 10, 2021, after arriving at her home in a botched hit targeting her fiancé, Ali Bhatti.
  • Bhatti continues to face multiple gun and drug charges following police raids that recovered five handguns, ammunition and narcotics from his residence.