{"id":1595,"date":"2018-11-15T11:09:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T11:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2018-11-15T11:09:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T11:09:24","slug":"murder-accused-mitesh-patel-cheated-on-wife-to-meet-men-for-sex-potential-jurors-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/murder-accused-mitesh-patel-cheated-on-wife-to-meet-men-for-sex-potential-jurors-told\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder accused Mitesh Patel cheated on wife to meet men for sex, potential jurors told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mitesh Patel is standing trial accused of wife Jessica&#8217;s murder\u00a0\u00a0The husband of an alleged murder victim was unfaithful to his wife &#8211; having met men for sexual intercourse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mitesh Patel, 37, is due to stand trial accused of the murder of his wife Jessica Patel, with whom he ran a pharmacy in Roman Road,\u00a0<b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazettelive.co.uk\/all-about\/acklam-and-linthorpe\">Linthorpe<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 34-year-old was found dead at their home in The Avenue on May 14.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A potential jury at\u00a0<b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazettelive.co.uk\/all-about\/courts\">Teesside Crown Court<\/a><\/b>\u00a0was brought into the court room to hear details of the case from the High Court Judge, Mr\u00a0Justice Goss.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During a short speech he told the courtroom that\u00a0<b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazettelive.co.uk\/news\/teesside-news\/live-jessica-patel-murder-mitesh-15408493\">Patel had been cheating on his wife with men<\/a><\/b>\u00a0he had met on the internet site Grindr.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;This case concerns the circumstances surrounding the death of Jessica Patel in her home in Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, on May 14 of this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazettelive.co.uk\/news\/teesside-news\/murder-accused-mitesh-patel-cheated-15409286\">https:\/\/www.gazettelive.co.uk\/news\/teesside-news\/murder-accused-mitesh-patel-cheated-15409286<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"perform-placeholder\" class=\"placeholder\" style=\"background: #ffffff; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #141414; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-config=\"{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;perform-placeholder&quot;,&quot;componentType&quot;:&quot;placeholder&quot;,&quot;referenceNode&quot;:&quot;.article-body &gt; p:nth-of-type(6)&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;performPlaceholder&quot;,&quot;relativePos&quot;:&quot;after&quot;}\" data-placeholder-placeholder=\"\" data-response-start=\"7478.900000000067\" data-type=\"placeholder\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cHer husband Mitesh Patel, who is the gentleman in the suit sitting there in the dock, is charged with her murder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth of them worked as pharmacists and owned and ran the pharmacy on Roman Road, Linthorpe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is agreed that during the course of the marriage, the defendant Mitesh Patel had been unfaithful to his wife, including having met men for sexual intercourse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of them he met using a social networking site called Grindr.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitesh Patel is standing trial accused of wife Jessica&#8217;s murder\u00a0\u00a0The husband of an alleged murder victim was unfaithful to his wife &#8211; having met men for sexual intercourse. Mitesh Patel, 37, is due to stand trial accused of the murder of his wife Jessica Patel, with whom he ran a pharmacy in Roman Road,\u00a0Linthorpe. 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