Husband accused of killing special constable wife is pictured kissing mistress weeks later

The picture was shown to an Old Bailey jury yesterday as Fadi Nasri, 34, denied any involvement in plotting her death.

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It is alleged he hoped to cash in on her life insurance policies worth £350,000 and set up home with Lithuanian Laura Mockiene.

The jury was shown a picture of her kissing Nasri as they holidayed together in her homeland. It was one of three such photographs found by police investigating Mrs Patel-Nasri's death.

Yesterday Nasri told the court that he had "no interest" in her insurance policies and insisted the couple's stretch limousine service was making more than £150,000 a year.

The prosecution had claimed they were facing "severe financial difficulties", but Nasri said his wife's hairdressing business was also making around £60,000 a year.

Mrs Patel-Nasri, 29, bled to death after her killer plunged a knife into her leg on the driveway of the couple's home in Wembley, North West London, on May 11, 2006.

Nasri - dressed smartly in a brown pinstripe suit - was first asked by his barrister Orlando Pownall: "Did you have anything to do with the death of your wife?"

"No," he replied and went on to describe his wife as a courageous woman. He told the court how she had once traded blows in a road rage incident outside their home in 2004 and also confronted a knifeman outside Burger King in Leicester Square.

Muslim Nasri met his wife, a Hindu, in 2001 while he was running a car valeting business and also working in a pizza restaurant.

Initially the couple set up an escort agency before deciding on a limousine business. Nasri spent £80,000 on a stretch Hummer vehicle to launch Limo Lounge in 2003.

He and Nisha became engaged in December 2002 and were married the following May.

The court heard how in the months leading up to her death Mrs Patel-Nasri was considering divorcing her husband but the pair celebrated their third wedding anniversary the night before she died.

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By this time Nasri was leading a double life with prostitute Miss Mockiene and they took several romantic holidays together.

He admitted he had paid Miss Mockiene for sex and had started an affair with her three months before his wife's death.

But he insisted he loved his wife and did not kill her for Miss Mockiene. He also said he did not know his mistress was pregnant at the time of the killing.

Despite initial denials, Nasri admitted his infidelity to police and nine months after his wife's death Miss Mockiene was with him in his flat when he was arrested.

The killing was allegedly set up by his friend Roger Leslie, 38, who hired hitman Jason Jones, 36, and getaway driver Tony Emmanuel, 42.

Nasri, from Wembley, Jones, from Manor Park, East London, and Leslie, from Barnet, North London, and Emmanuel, from East Ham, East London, all deny murder. The trial continues.