Daily Mail Reporter

The family of a young mother found dying in a street with serious head wounds and her right hand cut off has said she had 'lived in fear for months'. Geeta Aulakh, who has two young sons, died four hours later in hospital from her horrific injuries. Police later arrested her estranged husband, 31-year-old Harpreet Aulakh, along with five other men.

Mrs Aulakh was on her way home from her job as a receptionist at community radio station Sunrise Radio when she was attacked.The 28-year-old was ambushed just yards from the home of her sons' childminder at about 7pm on Monday. A passer-by found her unconsciousness and bleeding heavily, and called an ambulance to the street in Greenford, West London.

But Mrs Aulakh died in the early hours of yesterday, just as her mother arrived at her bedside at Charing Cross Hospital.She was separated from her husband, whom she had married against her parents' wishes.