“He stabbed me, darling.” These are the last words IT professional Prabha Arun Kumar, 41, uttered to her husband after she was brutally attacked in a Sydney park on Saturday night.
Kumar, 41, was knifed as she took a shortcut home through ParramattaPark.
The IT professional was found by a passerby who rushed her to a nearby hospital. However, unfortunately, she had lost too much blood and the doctors were unable to save her.
“It is a horrific attack without any stretch of the imagination,” police Superintendent Wayne Cox said.
Kumar’s husband flew to Australia from India, where both he and their nine-year-old daughter live, after the attack but reportedly arrived to be told that his wife had died.
The dead woman’s flatmate said Kumar had probably not wanted to bother anyone to ask for a lift home after finishing work late and arriving at Parramatta train station at 9 pm.
Instead she decided to walk, and was attacked near a tree-lined walkway.
“Because she was working late regularly, she felt bad to ask for help,” her flatmate, who asked to be identified as Sarada, told The Daily Telegraph.
“Maybe that is the reason she didn’t call.”
Sarada said she had repeatedly warned her friend not to walk through the park after dark.
“I told her that it is not a safe way to come through because there are people that stop and ask you for money,” she said.
“I don’t know how I am going to face her husband. She is very close to her husband and her daughter. She talks to them every day, as soon as she finishes work she calls her husband and keeps talking. She has a good family.”
Police have established a task force to investigate the murder but no arrests have so far been made.
