Harshita Brella said her husband 'will kill me', parents say in emotional interview

Evening Standard

A woman whose body was found in the boot of a car in east London allegedly told her mother that her husband “was going to kill her”.Harshita Brella, 24, was found in the boot of a silver Vauxhall Corsa in Brisbane Road, Ilford, east London, on November 14. Her husband Pankaj Lamba, 23, is the prime suspect in her murder.Police believe she was strangled in Corby, Northamptonshire, on the evening of November 10 before her body was driven to Ilford in the boot of a car the next day.In an emotional interview with BBC Newsnight, her mother Sudesh Kumari said she spoke to her daughter just weeks before her death.

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00:00And when he became violent, what did she tell you?

00:08He was making her life miserable.

00:11She said to papa, I don't want to go back to him.

00:15I will not go back to him. He will kill me.

00:20And that was the first time you really understood that she was being abused?

00:27Yes.

00:29She wasn't feeling well.

00:33So she went to the hospital.

00:37What happened at the hospital?

00:40I think maybe it was a miscarriage.

00:44Maybe because her health had turned so poorly,

00:48or maybe because she was beaten so brutally,

00:51she had a miscarriage.

00:55The UK police filed a case.

00:58Her sister-in-law, mother-in-law and her husband were all putting pressure on her,

01:04saying, you are nothing.

01:07We are stronger than you.

01:10You cannot do anything to us by pressing charges.

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