Jealous man guilty of hacking wife to pieces

Her estranged husband Harpreet Aulakh (32), offered ufffd5,000 (Rs 3.5 lakh) for her to be killed.
Just days before the murder, he was caught on CCTV buying the 14-inch machete for ufffd13.99 (Rs 1,000) in a shop.

Time of death
Geeta, a radio station receptionist, was killed by the two assassins after stepping off a bus and was just minutes away from picking up her two sons, now nine and 10, from their babysitter in Greenford, West London.
The man said to have wielded the machete was Aulakh's friend Sher Singh, (19). He flew into the UK from India four months before the murder on a student visa. The third killer, 30-year-old Jaswant Singh Dhillon, was an illegal immigrant who entered the country in 2002.

All three men were found guilty at the Old Bailey yesterday of murdering Geeta on November 16 last year.
Geeta's sister Anita Shinh, (30), sobbed as they were convicted.

The jury will continue to deliberate on a fourth defendant, alleged getaway driver Harpreet Singh, today. He denies murder.

Determined attack
Aftab Jafferjee, prosecuting, said behind the "savage and determined" attack was Aulakh's "chilling" reaction to his wife's desire to leave him.

"Geeta Aulakh was in the process of divorcing him and that would not be tolerated. No one else in the world could possibly have wished this utterly innocent and hard-working woman and mother any harm."
Jafferjee said, "Reduced to its bare and brutal essentials this case is about the worthlessness of the life of a woman, be she wife and mother, once she dares to offend a powerfully held belief -- however
indefensible -- of male unaccountability.'

Unemployed
Jobless Aulakh, described by Jafferjee as "smug and utterly unrepentant", spent his days at home drinking, smoking and playing computer games.He had thought he was in the clear because he made sure he was captured on CCTV in a pub at the time of the murder.

Indian-born Aulakh ordered the murder after his wife plucked up the courage to ask for a divorce following years of abuse and harassment by him, including hacking into her Facebook account and having her followed.
He was wrongly convinced that she was having an affair with another man.

A friend of Geeta said her husband "made her feel horrible, that she was ugly and disgusting" and that when he went away in 2009 to spend some months in India she had a positive glow.

In divorce papers, she said he hit her throughout the marriage and even while she was pregnant, once when she took a wrong turn when driving to see a midwife, and at other times slapping her, pulling her hair and hitting her with a toy car.

Jafferjee said that by the weeks leading up to the murder, Aulakh was subjecting his wife to "sheer unmitigated harassment".

On November 16 last year, he arranged for men to lay in wait to kill her and she was hit with what were described as at least four rapid and focused blows to the head that left her with irreversible brain damage. The case continues.

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