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3 December 2010
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A man convicted of murdering his wife who was hacked to death with a machete after demanding a divorce, has been jailed for life.
Geeta Aulakh, 28, had her hand severed and suffered head injuries in the west London attack, the Old Bailey heard.
Her husband Harpreet Aulakh, 32, of Greenford, who ordered the murder, was jailed for a minimum of 28 years.
Sher Singh, 19, of Southall, and Jaswant Dhillon, 30, of Ilford, east London, were also convicted of murder.
Both men were jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum of 22 years.
The court heard the mother-of-two was attacked in Greenford in November 2009 as she walked to a childminder's house to pick up her two sons, aged eight and 10.
'Cold-blooded' murder Aulakh planned the "chilling" murder as "Geeta Aulakh was in the process of divorcing him and that would not be tolerated," Aftab Jafferjee QC, prosecuting, said.
The judge described Mrs Aulakh's killing as "pointless, cold-blooded and appalling".
Aulakh planned her murder after his wife, who was a receptionist at Asian radio station Sunrise Radio, asked for a divorce.
Months before the murder the husband also began to suspect his wife of having an affair, although this was unfounded, the court heard.
In order to give himself an alibi Aulakh went to a pub with a friend at the time of the murder to make sure he was captured on CCTV, the trial heard.
The jury was unable to reach a verdict on a fourth defendant, Harpreet Singh, 20, from Slough in Berkshire, who had denied murder and will face a retrial at a later date.
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Geeta Aulakh, 28, had her hand severed and suffered head injuries in the west London attack, the Old Bailey heard.
Her husband Harpreet Aulakh, 32, of Greenford, who ordered the murder, was jailed for a minimum of 28 years.
Sher Singh, 19, of Southall, and Jaswant Dhillon, 30, of Ilford, east London, were also convicted of murder.
Both men were jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum of 22 years.
The court heard the mother-of-two was attacked in Greenford in November 2009 as she walked to a childminder's house to pick up her two sons, aged eight and 10.
'Cold-blooded' murder Aulakh planned the "chilling" murder as "Geeta Aulakh was in the process of divorcing him and that would not be tolerated," Aftab Jafferjee QC, prosecuting, said.
The judge described Mrs Aulakh's killing as "pointless, cold-blooded and appalling".
Aulakh planned her murder after his wife, who was a receptionist at Asian radio station Sunrise Radio, asked for a divorce.
Months before the murder the husband also began to suspect his wife of having an affair, although this was unfounded, the court heard.
In order to give himself an alibi Aulakh went to a pub with a friend at the time of the murder to make sure he was captured on CCTV, the trial heard.
The jury was unable to reach a verdict on a fourth defendant, Harpreet Singh, 20, from Slough in Berkshire, who had denied murder and will face a retrial at a later date.
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