He stabbed me, darling

An Indian mother was fatally stabbed in a Sydney park during a brutal attack as she was on the phone to her distraught husband back home, police said yesterday.

Prabha Arun Kumar, a 41-year-old IT professional, was taking a shortcut through Parramatta Park in the city's west at around 9.30pm on Saturday when she was killed.

Police refused to reveal details of the phone call, but reports said she told her husband: "He stabbed me, darling", before the conversation abruptly ended.

"He's understandably extremely distressed," homicide squad commander Michael Willing said of Kumar's husband who jetted into Australia yesterday and was helping police with their investigation.

"Here we have an Indian national who has been in the country for some time, going about her business and ends up being killed in a very vicious way."

Police appealed for help from the public, releasing footage of Kumar walking from Parramatta Railway Station.

"It's a horrific crime. It's a very, very disturbing crime," Willing added.

"We think that she sustained a number of injuries to the neck area with what we believe is a sharp-edged weapon."

Police said there was nothing to suggest the murder of Kumar, who reportedly planned to move back to India to be with her husband and nine-year-old daughter, was racially motivated.

Kumar was found by a passer-by shortly afterwards and rushed to hospital but had lost too much blood and doctors were unable to save her. She was just 300 metres from home.