Arthur’s Seat killer told wife to stop being like a 'British woman'

The parent of a pistillate murdered by her hubby who pushed her disconnected a elevation says helium was "evil, jealous and insecure".

Fawziyah Javed died aft she was pushed from Arthur's Seat successful Edinburgh by Kashif Anwar successful 2021.

In her archetypal TV interview, Fawziyah's parent Yasmin Javed told BBC Newsnight she believes Anwar did not similar his woman being independent.

In a signaling Fawziyah secretly made, her hubby told her to halt behaving similar a British woman.

Fawziyah's parent said Anwar resented the 31-year-old solicitor being an independent, well-educated young woman.

"He didn't similar the information that Fawzi had her ain voice, her ain opinions. He didn't similar that," she said.

Fawziyah Javed, from Leeds, joined Anwar, an optical assistant, successful an Islamic ceremonial connected 25 December 2020.

Three months aft their wedding Anwar knocked Fawziyah unconscious successful a cemetery, the tribunal lawsuit into her decease was told.

At astir the aforesaid time, helium enactment a pillow implicit her look and punched her successful the head.

The tribunal besides heard Anwar withdrew £12,000 from her slope relationship portion she was sleeping.

Fawziyah's parent Yasmin said she had encouraged her girl to permission Anwar but she said Fawziyah was biding her clip and said she knew what she was doing.

"She had contacted divorcement lawyers to get the shot rolling to get a divorcement due to the fact that helium ever said, 'I'm ne'er going to divorcement you'.

"And she'd besides made dependable recordings of him wherever he's being threatening and abusive towards her. So evidently that was each grounds of however helium was treating her."

In 1 dependable signaling Fawziyah is heard saying: "You've ruined my life."

Anwar replies: "I'll archer you 1 thing. You extremity this and I volition ruin yours."

In different signaling Anwar is heard telling his wife: "Who bash you deliberation you are? You're not a antheral … truthful travel backmost time similar you've been told."

His woman asks: "What's your problem?"

Anwar replies: "My problem? Don't situation me, bash not beryllium that British woman.

"Because I'm telling you, it volition not work. I committedness it volition not work. It won't enactment with me."

Fawziyah went to the constabulary doubly truthful that determination was a grounds of Anwar's behaviour, though she didn't privation them to intervene astatine that point.

The 2nd constabulary study was made conscionable days earlier Anwar killed her, connected a play distant to Edinburgh successful September 2021.

The mates were captured connected CCTV heading to the Edinburgh landmark Arthur's seat.

After falling 50ft disconnected a cliff edge, Fawziyah was capable to archer passers-by what had happened, earlier she died.

In April this year, Anwar was jailed for a minimum of 20 years for murdering his wife, who was 17 weeks pregnant, and causing the decease of her unborn child.

Fawziyah's parent said she cannot hide her daughter's past words: "'Am I going to die? Is my babe going to die?'"

"The words spell circular astir my caput each azygous day," Ms Javed said.

"Alongside the grief and pain, I can't get them words retired of my mind."

Ms Javed told Newsnight she did not consciousness similar the household got justness and Anwar is inactive exerting his power adjacent though he's successful prison.

"I inactive don't person each of Fawziyah's possessions back," she said. "The possessions that I person got back. I've had to combat bony and nail to get them.

"And his parents are honouring that control, by not giving each her possessions backmost to us."

The tribunal antecedently heard a signaling of Anwar telling his wife: "Anything that's present that you're astir apt going to accidental it belongs to you. You're not taking thing from here.

"It's each going to enactment here, that's my possessions due to the fact that it's my house."

The parents of Kashif Anwar told BBC Newsnight that they had returned each of Fawziyah's possessions to the constabulary and to her family.

Ms Javed believes Anwar's motives for murdering her girl stemmed from honour-based control, jealousy, and insecurity.

Honour-based maltreatment is simply a transgression oregon incidental committed to support oregon support the 'honour' of a household oregon community.

"He utilized to accidental to Fawziyah, we don't person divorces successful our family, we don't divorce, we enactment successful marriages nary substance what," she told BBC Newsnight.

Police Scotland, who carried retired the probe into Fawziyah's murder, said they did not place immoderate honour-based abuse, adding that home maltreatment and coercive power were the main factors successful the case.

But foundation Karma Nirvana, who are supporting Yasmin - including anterior to Fawziyah's decease - said they recognised honour maltreatment arsenic portion of Fawziayah's experience.

Baroness Shaista Gohir, seat of Muslim Women Network UK (MWNUK), said determination tin beryllium further barriers faced by immoderate South Asian women erstwhile leaving abusive relationships.

Pointing to however spiritual divorces tin beryllium utilized arsenic tools of control, she highlighted the request for accrued consciousness and enactment for victims successful these communities.

Baroness Gohir said arsenic a subordinate and unpaid astatine MWNUK, Fawziyah was an intelligent and educated pistillate who knew her rights, "yet she inactive ended up dead".