WARNING: This story contains details of domestic abuse.

Three months before her death, Kamaljit Sandhu filed for divorce after enduring years of domestic violence.

Her husband — Inderjit Singh Sandhu — was in India at the time.

Kamaljit Sandhu, who lives in Abbotsford, a city about 70 kilometres east of Vancouver in B.C.'s Fraser Valley, got a protection order. In an affidavit, she claimed she was afraid the 50-year-old "would harm her when he became aware of the court proceedings."