‘Jealous and insecure’ Kashif Anwar pushed Fawziyah Javed off Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh (Picture: PA)
The father of a man who murdered his pregnant wife used publicity over the case to complain about the cost of the victim’s engagement ring, it has emerged.
Mohammed Anwar’s son Kashif, 29, shoved Fawziyah Javed, 31, over a cliff at Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh in September 2021, following months of abuse.
The killer was jailed last year, but the case has received renewed interest in the wake of a Channel 4 documentary revealing how Fawziyah documented the abuse before she died.
Secret recordings she made on her phone – as well as her dying words uttered to a passer-by – would become a ‘pillar’ of the evidence against Kashif Anwar.
In the documentary, Fawziyah’s family condemned the killer’s parents for showing ‘no remorse’ and making public gestures of support for him in court.
In an interview filmed at Edinburgh High Court during the trial, Mohammed Anwar moaned that a £6,300 engagement ring which he paid for had not been returned by police.
He said: ‘When Kashif got engaged she says “Kashif I want a diamond ring”.
‘You know how much that cost me? £6,300. I haven’t got it back yet from police.’
The couple seen walking through central Edinburgh before the murder (Picture: PA)
Mohammed Anwar then questioned whether his son had really been abusing his daughter and said Fawziyah ‘fell’ to her death.
He continued: ‘They were a very happy couple. Every family has ups and downs. My son talks loud but they were both happy and she was alright with Kashif.
‘If she wasn’t happy and she was ending the relationship why did she come to Scotland?
‘When she fell me and my wife cried a lot. She was our daughter, not their daughter.
Anwar resented his wife’s independence, according to the victim’s mother (Picture: PA)
‘We believe when a girl comes to your family, she’s your daughter. My daughters are married.
‘She was our daughter. The family is thinking wrong, I’m not thinking wrong.’
Fawziyah’s mother, Yasmin Javed, told filmmakers: ‘His parents have never said how heartbroken they are, they have never shown any remorse. In fact they have just added to our pain.’
Her uncle Shahid Farouk added: ‘To see his mother waving at him in the public gallery, blowing kisses at him, it’s absolutely disgraceful.
New details of the case are laid bare in a Channel 4 documentary (Picture: PA)
‘Your son is charged with murder and you have shown no remorse.’
Ms Javed previously told the BBC her son-in-law was ‘jealous and insecure’ over the success and independence of her daughter, who worked as a solicitor.
Fawziyah had secretly recorded phone calls of Anwar threatening her and telling her to stop behaving like a ‘British woman’.
She went to the police twice so that there was a record of his abusive behaviour, although she asked them not to intervene at that point.
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.’
Lead prosecutor Alex Prentice KC 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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