British police are reportedly trying to track down the husband of a 24-year-old woman found lifeless in the trunk of an abandoned car on Thursday, after he left the country after driving the lifeless body for around 100 kilometers.
“She was a young woman in her twenties with her whole life ahead of her and it is absolutely tragic that her life was cut short in this way. The detectives […] are working 24 hours a day to establish the circumstances of his death,” Northamptonshire police said on Sunday in a Facebook post, reported by “The Independent”.
On Wednesday, British police launched an investigation to find young Harshita Brella, from Corby in England, after a relative expressed concern for her well-being, we can read.
Unfortunately, the next day, investigators located the young woman’s body in the early morning in the trunk of a vehicle parked in the Ilford district of London, approximately 120 kilometers from her home.
“While we believe that Harshita was attacked by someone she knew, we are keeping an open mind and invite anyone who knows her to contact us with any relevant information they may have,” the corps had continued. policeman.
If the police have not commented on the exact causes of his death, a forensic autopsy carried out on Friday would have confirmed the theory of assassination, but it is not yet clear where and when the death would have occurred.
Currently, the victim’s husband, Pankaj Lamba, is reportedly in the sights of investigators as a suspect, we read in an update published Monday.
“We suspect Lamba transported Harshita’s body from Northamptonshire to Ilford by car. We believe he has now fled the country,” Northamptonshire Police said, sharing images of the suspect.
It is not clear to which country the man may have fled.
Last September, the woman was allegedly the victim of domestic violence while the subject of a protection order from Northampton Magistrates’ Court, ‘The Independent’ reported.
According to her sister, Sonia Dabas, the young woman was “very excited” to move to the United Kingdom in April, after an arranged marriage in March. Except that, as early as August, she called her father after running away because her husband was hitting her.
“She ran away into the streets, he chased her and also hit her,” Ms Dabas reportedly told the BBC. There was a witness who saw this and asked what was happening, and that’s why he ran away.”
The family last spoke to the young woman on Sunday, November 10, when she had just made dinner and was waiting for her husband to come home, she added, according to the British media.
