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A man who killed a prostitute in anger in 2003 has been declared a dangerous offender after recently being convicted of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl.

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Jatin Patel, 43, has been ordered jailed for an indefinite period of time following a sentencing hearing in B.C. Supreme Court.

The slaying of the prostitute in a North Vancouver motel room occurred in May 2003 after Patel had been in jail for offences committed in the United States and had been deported back to Canada.

A day after arriving back in Canada, he killed Shelby Tracey Tom in anger after he discovered that she was transsexual. After striking her violently in the throat, he placed her naked body in a closet in the room, hidden by linen and clothing.

Patel went into the motel lobby where he had a chance meeting with a woman who sold him some drugs and then returned with him to his room where they did drugs together and had sex.

When the woman, who is not identified in a ruling in the dangerous offender case, discovered the body, Patel told her about the killing. The woman discouraged him from dismembering the body.

He moved the victim — shrouded in plastic bags and a mattress cover inside a shopping cart — to the rear of a store near the motel, where the body was later discovered.