Stab victim Geetika was married to her murderer
GEETIKA Goyal, who was found dead in the street with stab wounds to her neck, chest and arm, was killed by her husband.
Kashish Aggarwal, arrested shortly after the fatal stabbing in March, was married to the 29-year-old victim, police have revealed. He has pleaded guilty to her murder.
Mrs Goyal’s body was found in Uppingham Close, off the A47 in Rowlatts Hill, Leicester, in the early hours of March 4. The couple lived in Wintersdale Road, nearby on the opposite side of the A47.
At a short Leicester Crown Court a court hearing on Friday, Aggarwal changed his plea to guilty, but very few details of the incident emerged.
But in an update released by Leicestershire Police, it was revealed the couple were married and that Mrs Goyal had been stabbed multiple times.
It also emerged that Mrs Goyal had been reported missing by her brother less than six hours before a member of the public spotted her lying dead on the pavement.
The police statement said: “Following concern raised by Aggarwal, Mrs Goyal’s brother had reported his sister missing to police just before 9pm on March 3. Police attended the home and enquiries were carried out.
“At 2.25am the following morning, police received a call from a member of the public reporting that a woman was lying on the pavement in Uppingham Close.
“Police attended where Mrs Goyal was found with multiple stab wounds to her neck, shoulder, chest and arm. East Midlands Ambulance Service were also in attendance and
Mrs Goyal was sadly pronounced dead at the scene.”
Having pleaded guilty to murder, Aggarwal has been remanded into custody and is due to be sentenced on Monday, October 18.
Detective Inspector Jenni Heggs, from the East Midlands Special Operations Unit, is the Senior Investigating Officer in the case.
She said: “My thoughts are with Geetika Goyal and her family. Today’s plea will sadly not bring Geetika back but I do hope it helps Geetika’s family in some small way to see that justice is being done.
“We now continue to support the family as we prepare for the sentence hearing.”