Fawziyah Javed was murdered by her husband Kashif Anwar (Picture: PA)
A pregnant woman who was pushed off Arthur’s Seat by her husband helped to jail her murderer with her last words.
31-year-old Fawziyah Javed and her unborn child died after Kashif Anwar shoved her over the cliff in Edinburgh in September 2021.
Anwar, 29, denied murder but he was found guilty last April.
Some of her last words, overheard by a passerby as she lay critically injured in the street, were: ‘Don’t let my husband near me, he pushed me.’
In the months leading up to the murder Fawziyah, a lawyer, collected evidence of Anwar’s abusive behaviour towards her – and she even set up a secret code with her mum so she could text if she ever needed help from the police.
Fawziyah’s mum, Nighat Yasmin Javed, said her concerns for her daughter’s safety grew after the couple married in December 2020 because of the ‘abuse, the violence, the aggression, and coercive control’ – and she told her daughter to text her ‘I feel like cream cakes’ if she felt like she was in danger.
Fawziyah Javed collected evidence of her husband’s abusive behaviour before her death (Picture: PA)
Kashif Anwar was found guilty of murder (Picture: PA)
He pushed his wife from Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh (Picture: Getty Images)
A two-part Channel 4 documentary has since revealed ‘a great deal of evidence’ collected by Fawziyah made up the ‘pillar’ of the prosecution case and was ‘crucial’ in securing the murder conviction.
The documentary, called The Push, was given permission to film the trial at the High Court in Edinburgh.
Alex Prentice KC, lead prosecutor, said she had secretly recorded phone calls of Anwar threatening her, and she went to police twice to record his abusive behaviour.
The second report, tragically, was made just days before the couple, from Leeds, went on their weekend trip to Edinburgh when Anwar struck.
Mr Prentice added: ‘The evidence of what Fawziyah said was crucial. It was effectively Fawziyah speaking to the jury.
‘I have prosecuted many murder cases over the course of my career but for a variety of reasons this case is extraordinary.’
He added that it would have been ‘very difficult’ to find Anwar guilty without that evidence.
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A friend and colleague of Fawziyah known only as Ingrid told The Sun: ‘She built this massive mountain of evidence culminating with giving a statement to the police on the verge of her dying.
‘The fact she was a lawyer with all the legal training, I do think she must have thought about leaving this evidence behind. I remember feeling like she died like a lawyer.’
Anwar was sentenced to at least 20 years in prison.
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