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Pictured: Harleen Kaur Satpreet Gandhi
Chilling CCTV has captured the moment a 'controlling and abusive' husband bought the knife he later used to murder his estranged wife.
Satpreet Singh Gandhi, 37, was today jailed for life at Leeds Crown Court after earlier pleading guilty to fatally stabbing Harleen Kaur Satpreet Gandhi on September 5 last year.
He must serve a minimum sentence of 23 years and four months.
Police said Gandhi killed Harleen because she ended their abusive relationship six months earlier.
Video released after he was sentenced today shows Gandhi in an Asda store in Leeds on August 28, casually purchasing the murder weapon.
Days later on September 5, further footage captured him waiting across from Harleen's flat between 6.04pm and 6.15pm with a backpack prosecutors believe contained the knife.
Further footage from the same camera showed him leaving the basement flat at 6.24pm and running off after attacking Harleen.
Police said Gandhi killed Harleen because she ended their abusive relationship six months earlier
Police found Harleen unconscious inside the flat with 'significant blood loss' and she was rushed to hospital but was pronounced dead a short time later.
After the murder, Harleen's friends detailed a background of domestic violence and controlling behaviour by Gandhi, but she didn't report it at the time.
A post-mortem examination later showed she died as a result of a stab wound to the chest.
Armed officers were deployed to trace her estranged husband as a
