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| Man murdered pregnant wife by pushing her off Arthur's Seat | |
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| Fawziyah Javed was pregnant when she died | |
| A man has been found guilty of murdering his pregnant wife by pushing her 50ft off a cliff edge at an Edinburgh beauty spot. | A man has been found guilty of murdering his pregnant wife by pushing her 50ft off a cliff edge at an Edinburgh beauty spot. |
| Kashif Anwar, 29, killed 31-year-old Fawziyah Javed fell from a rocky outcrop on Arthur's Seat during a holiday in September 2021. | |
| As she lay dying, Ms Javed, from Yorkshire, told a police officer her husband had pushed her. | |
| Anwar claimed he had slipped and bumped into his wife. | |
| The jury at the High Court in Edinburgh rejected that defence and found him guilty of murdering Ms Javed and causing the death of her unborn child. | |
| The couple, from Leeds, had been married for nine months. | The couple, from Leeds, had been married for nine months. |
| Fawziyah Javed died after falling from Arthur's Seat | |
| During a week-long trial at the High Court in Edinburgh, the jury heard that Anwar first met Ms Javed when she accompanied her mother to buy new glasses. | |
| Anwar, an optician, and Ms Javed, a lawyer, began a relationship after meeting again soon after. | |
| Her mother Yasmin Javed told the court that Anwar and his parents visited her family in November 2019 to express his desire to marry her daughter. | |
| They tied the knot on Christmas Day in 2020. | |
| But Ms Javed soon began to feel worried about Anwar's behaviour. | |
| Woman fell 50ft from Arthur's Seat, court told | |
| Woman said husband 'pushed her' from Arthur's Seat | |
| Arthur's Seat murder trial told of abuse code words | |
| During the trial her mother gave evidence saying she believed her daughter was in a violent, coercive marriage. | |
| She said she was very close to her only child and that her daughter had spoken to her about her husband's abusive behaviour. | |
| Ms Javed's mother also said her daughter had told her she was contemplating leaving the relationship within a few months of marrying Anwar. | |
| She told her mother she planned to leave Anwar after a four-night mini-break to Edinburgh - arriving in the capital on 1 September 2021. | |
| Anwar, who did not give evidence in court, told police officers he and his pregnant wife had a lie-in until 10:00 the following day before having breakfast. | |
| As well as visiting Harvey Nichols and Mulberry, Anwar said they had also visited music store FOPP and a couple of "Harry Potter" shops. | |
| Fawziyah Javed had been married for nine months | |
| Anwar said they had decided to visit Arthur's Seat, an extinct volcano in Holyrood Park, at the bottom of Edinburgh's famous Royal Mile, after dining at the food chain Wagamama's. | |
| They arrived at the famous hill at about 19:30 and started climbing in order to see the sunset. | |
| But the pair arrived too late and decided to go back down the hill. | |
| It was then they decided to take a selfie on a rocky outcrop. | |
| Anwar told police: "We were below the summit. I lost my balance and fell into her. | |
| "I heard her go over the edge and say 'oh my foot' and she started screaming. I heard a thud." | |
| Ms Javed had fallen 50ft (15m) down the cliff. | |
| But although she had a visible head injury she was able to speak for a short time while she lay dying on the hillside. | |
| Disrespectful person | |
| The first person to reach her, hillwalker Daniyah Rafique, said: "She told me not to let her husband near her and that he had pushed her." | |
| Then police officer, PC Rhiannon Clutton, arrived at the scene. She said "She was writhing in pain but she was able to speak to me when I asked her questions. | |
| "She said she asked the woman what had happened and said her response was: 'He pushed me'." | |
| The police officer added that Ms Javed said her husband had pushed her as she had tried to end the relationship. | |
| She then went into cardiac arrest and died at the scene from multiple injuries. | |
| Later that night Anwar was arrested for murder. | |
| DC Steven Caballero said Anwar asked how many years he would get and said his life was ruined now. | |
| He asked if he would get bail, but then said "probably not, not for murder". | |
| The detective said the murderer then asked about Edinburgh prisons and what Saughton jail was like. | |
| During the trial, Ms Javed was also heard in a phone recording with Anwar calling him "a disrespectful person" and said he was "horrible". | |
| In the recording, she asked: "Which husband treats his wife the way you do?" | |
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