Police described her murder as "atrocious and horrendous" and it was included in a list of ten prominent police deaths between 2001 and 2006 by Guardian Unlimited.
Two men, heroin dealer Roger Leslie and bouncer Jason Jones, were convicted of Patel-Nasri's murder, as was her husband, Fadi Nasri, who had been having an affair at the time and organised the murder to claim her life insurance. The trio were sentenced to life imprisonment.
