Man jailed for 41 years for murder of woman at bus stop in East Ham

James Sinclair stabbed Shadika Patel in the early hours as she waited to take a food parcel to her teenage sons

A man who stabbed a woman to death as she was taking a food parcel to her two sons has been jailed for 41 years, the Metropolitan police said.

James Sinclair, 31, was handed the prison sentence after being found guilty of the murder of Shadika Patel and the attempted murder of a 48-year-old woman, after a trial at the Old Bailey.