"My name is Parwinder," the 32-year-old can be heard saying in a quiet voice in a recording played to the Glebe Coroner's Court on Monday.
"My husband nearly killed me." Shortly after the call was logged on the afternoon of December 2, 2013, Parwinder Kaur's neighbours reported hearing a "blood-curdling scream", and witnesses reported seeing Ms Kaur, running from the house, with "two plumes of black smoke" behind her.
They emerged from their homes in the western Sydney suburb of Rouse Hill to see what one described as a "ball of fire", the inquest has heard.
Ms Kaur, who came to Australia for an arranged marriage, had been doused in petrol before she was set alight.
Her husband, Kulwinder Singh, was seen running after her and patting her as if to put out the flames.
But she died early the following morning after suffering burns to almost 85 per cent of her body. Her husband later told police their marriage had no problems.
"I never tried to hurt her," he told investigators. But counsel assisting, Philip Strickland SC, has told Deputy State Coroner Sharon Freund that the evidence appears inconsistent with any suggestion Ms Kaur had set herself on fire in a bid to end her life or to attract police attention.
"The hypothesis goes like this: Parwinder thought the involvement of the police might somehow have provided her with a circuit-breaker to leave what was undoubtedly, at that time, an unhappy and possibly violent marriage," Mr Strickland said.
But Ms Kaur's husband admitted to police that she had never previously tried to hurt herself, he said.
And her phone call to emergency services - the tone of her voice, the way the call came to an abrupt end - pointed to it being a "genuine act of self-preservation where she sought help from the police", Mr Strickland added.
"That doesn't appear to be consistent with an attempt, two minutes later, to kill herself."
He said Ms Kaur had called police almost a year before her death, in January 2013, and that on other occasions she had told relatives and a work friend her husband had "bashed" her, hit her with shoes and had thrown her out of the home.
The inquest has also heard Ms Kaur and her husband argued many times over family finances. Investigators were told that Mr Singh had challenged Ms Kaur over the upkeep of the couple's mortgage and told her "if you're not going to contribute, I'm going to live at my mother's house".
The inquest will work to determine how Ms Koar came to be set alight.
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