Harshita Brella, the Indian woman found dead in UK, had allegedly informed her family that her husband would kill her days before her body was discovered in London.
“She said I will not go back to him. He will kill me,” Harshita’s mother Sudesh Kumari told BBC.
“He was making her life miserable,” she added.
The victim’s family believes that Pankaj Lamba, her husband who is the main suspect in the case, was in India, but they claim that the local police have been “not listening” to their pleas. According to local police, UK authorities are yet to request their assistance in the matter.
The father of the victim accused Lamba of domestic violence and said: “She said ‘he beat me really badly. He even beat me in the street’.”
“My daughter was crying, crying so hard, Satbir Brella said.
The family revealed that Harshita had a miscarriage in the weeks leading up to her death.
‘Can’t believe’: Suspect’s mother on murder charge on son
The main suspect and Harshita Brella’s husband, Pankaj Lamba’s mother said that she could not believe that her son would have killed her.
“I don’t know anything but I cannot believe this,” Sunil Devi told the BBC.
“Some people even say he’s been killed. We don’t know what people are saying. I can’t understand anything. We’ve left it to God,” she added.
Police suspect that the 24-year-old was strangled to death in Corby, Northamptonshire, on November 10, before being transported to Ilford, where her body was discovered on November 14 in the boot of a car.
Lamba was arrested on September 3 and placed under a domestic violence protection order (DVPO) when released on bail two days later.
The order prohibited him from harassing, pestering, or intimidating Harshita and required him to pay £480 in police costs.