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Mother hacked to death after filing for divorce
A young mother was hacked to death for daring to divorce her husband who ordered the killing after he became “obsessed” she was having an affair, a court heard yesterday.

Geeta Aulakh, 28, was left to die in the street after a “savage” attack in which her hand was severed by a 14in machete as she tried to defend herself.
The Old Bailey heard that, in a “hideous” act of “breathtaking indifference”, Harpreet Aulakh, her husband, had offered a reward of £5,000 to a room full of Punjabi men to kill her after she had started divorce proceedings.
Aftab Jafferjee QC, prosecuting, said: “His reaction displayed a chilling belief which was almost certainly culturally rooted in male unaccountability. How does a mere woman, as he and other like-minded accomplices viewed her, challenge that smug, chauvinistic mindset?”
Mrs Aulakh, a Sikh receptionist at a radio station, signed a divorce petition in September last year claiming she was in a “loveless marriage” and cited episodes of verbal abuse, accusations of infidelity and violence.
Her husband then became convinced she was having an affair and accessed her Facebook account to follow her movements, it is claimed
“In fact there is no evidence that she was [having an affair], not to say it would matter if she had,” said Mr Jafferjee. “It became an obsession with him.” Months before her death, Mrs Aulakh had warned a work colleague at Sunrise Radio in Southall, west London, that her husband had told her “if he could not have her then no one else would”, the court heard.
“It is a sadly familiar tale of jealousy, control and wounded pride,” the prosecutor said.
“Her friend describes Geeta as a woman who was controlled, living in fear, with work being her only escape.” The jury heard that Mrs Aulakh was set upon by three men lying in wait for her as she went to collect her two young sons from a child minder in Greenford, west London, last November.
“So savage and determined was the mission to kill her that when she sought to protect her head, her right hand was completely severed from her arm,” Mr Jafferjee said.
“The man who organised this murder was none other than her own husband. He planned it. The other three defendants executed it.”

Mr Aulakh, 32, of Greenford, Jaswinder Dhillon, 30, of Ilford, Sher Singh, 19, of Southall, and Harpreet Singh, 20, of Slough, all deny murder. The trial continues.

Geeta Aulakh with her husband Harpeet who allegedly had her murdered because she was a 'mere' woman trying to organise their divorce

Prosecutor Aftab Jafferjee QC said: ‘His reaction displayed a chilling belief, almost certainly culturally rooted, in male unaccountability. How dare a mere woman, as he and other like-minded accomplices viewed her, challenge that smug, chauvinist mind-set.