Hit-and-run victim had feared being found dead in the street

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Monica Kovacova, 21, was killed when a BMW hit her outside her Perivale home as she returned from a night out.

The sports car also struck and killed minicab driver Naseem Kayani, who had dropped her off, before it ploughed into a wall.

Ms Kovacova, who was believed to be Slovakian, and Mr Kayani, 46, had been unloading the boot of his car in the early hours of Saturday.

Neighbours, including a former casualty nurse, desperately tried to save their lives, but the pair were pronounced dead at the scene.

The driver of the BMW ran away. A 23-year-old man was later arrested and bailed until 1 December on suspicion of dangerous driving.

Fouad Boudirra, 30, who shared the Bilton Road house with Ms Kovacova, broke down in tears as he described one of the last conversations he had with the "lovely, easy-going" woman.

"I told her she should keep in touch with her parents because she was so young and they must be worried about her," he said. "But she told me: 'I am hard-working and responsible. They have nothing to worry about unless they find me one day dead in the street.'

"She had a feeling on Thursday night and then it happened on Friday night. It has really shocked me."

Ms Kovacova's parents had visited her only a week before she died. She came to England less than a year ago and it is thought she worked at Selfridges, as well as a Soho nightclub.

Mr Boudirra said he heard the smash outside his home but did not realise his housemate was among the dead.

"I had a feeling something might have happened but I did not want it to be her," he said.

Meanwhile, Mr Kayani's widow and four children are returning to Britain from Pakistan to claim his body.

Mr Kayani, who lived in Cranford, had recently sent his family home and had been forwarding them his salary.

A post-mortem examination of the two bodies was due to take place today.

In neighbouring Alperton, a Polish man in his late twenties died on Sunday after what is believed to have been another hit-and-run .