A murdered woman's lifeless body was found by her husband and step-children when they returned home from school.
Sarbjit Kaur, 38, is thought to have been murdered in a burglary gone wrong at her home on Rookery Lane, in the leafy suburb of Penn, Wolverhampton.
She was last seen alive by her husband Gurpreet Singh at about 9am on Friday morning when he left to go to work at the construction company he is director of.
After finishing work, Mr Singh picked up his two children, a girl aged 11 and a boy aged ten, from school and they returned to their home.
When they arrived, they found the body of Mrs Kaur. Police said the mother-of-two had been assaulted and was pronounced dead at the scene when paramedics arrived. Early inquiries suggest some items were taken from the £250,000 property and police are not ruling out a botched burglary as a possible motive.
A friend of the family said she was a home-based textile worker and that material and fabric was found strewn near her body and upstairs.
Her husband, known locally as Sonu, is though to have been staying at a relatives' house following the shocking murder, together with the two children who are from his first marriage.
According to locals, Sarbjit Kaur arrived in the country from the Punjab in India just under three years ago after she married Mr Singh in July 2015. Mr Singh’s first wife, also an Indian national and the mother of his two children, had died of a sudden illness in India in December 2014.
West Midlands Police also confirmed that a post-mortem examination had not revealed a precise cause of death, and further tests are now being conducted.
