‘Is my baby going to die?’: Devastated mother reveals final words of pregnant woman pushed to her death off Arthur’s Seat by ‘evil’ husband who hated his wife’s independence
- Fawziyah Javed, 31, and her unborn child died after falling around 50ft in 2021
- Her mother Yasmin Javed told the BBC that she will never forget her last words
The mother of a pregnant woman who was pushed to her death off Arthur’s Seat by her abusive husband has revealed the final words her daughter said before her death.
Fawziyah Javed, 31, and her unborn child died after she was shoved from the famous peak in Edinburgh by Kashif Anwar, 29, in September 2021.
Anwar, from Leeds, was found guilty of the murder after a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh. He was given a life sentence in April and ordered to serve at least 20 years in prison.
In her first television interview, Ms Javed’s mother Yasmin Javed told BBC Newsnight her daughter had contacted divorce lawyers and had made voice recordings of Anwar being abusive.
She said she will never forget her daughter’s last words asking ‘Am I going to die? Is my baby going to die?’.
Fawziyah Javed (pictured), 31, who was pushed to her death off Arthur’s Seat by her abusive husband has revealed the final words her daughter said before her death
Kashif Anwar (pictured), 29, from Leeds, was found guilty of the murder after a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh. He was given a life sentence in April and ordered to serve at least 20 years behind bars
In her first television interview Ms Javed’s mother Yasmin Javed (pictured) told BBC Newsnight her daughter had contacted divorce lawyers and had made voice recordings of Anwar being abusive
Mrs Javed said: ‘The words go round around my head every single day. Alongside the grief and pain, I can’t get them words out of my mind.’
The BBC reported that in one of the voice recordings Anwar can be heard telling his wife not to challenge him, saying: ‘Don’t challenge me, do not be that British woman.’
Her daughter, who was about 17 weeks pregnant when she died, used her last words to tell a passerby it was her abusive husband who caused her to fall about 50ft before her body came to a rest.
Daniyah Rafique, 24, managed to reach the dying employment lawyer on the side of the hill, where she was told: ‘Don’t let my husband near me, he pushed me.’
Giving evidence during the trial Mrs Javed said Anwar was ‘abusive, controlling, manipulative, aggressive and violent’ towards her daughter. She told the BBC that he did not like the fact his wife was independent.
Mrs Javed said: ‘He didn’t like the fact that Fawzi had her own voice, her own opinions. He didn’t like that.’
She said her daughter had contacted divorce lawyers to ‘get the ball rolling’ but Anwar always said he would never divorce her. The mother told the BBC: ‘He used to say to Fawziyah, we don’t have divorces in our family, we don’t divorce, we stay in marriages, no matter what.’
Ms Javed fell around 50ft from Arthur’s Seat (from the blue arrow to the red arrow). She used her final words to make sure witnesses knew she had been shoved by her husband
Chilling CCTV footage captured the moments leading up to Ms Javed’s death. She is seen walking behind Anwar in Edinburgh, shortly before he killed her
Ms Javed, seen here walking behind her husband, had wanted to leave him and had contacted divorce lawyers to ‘get the ball rolling’
Sentencing Anwar earlier this year, Lord Beckett said he had committed a ‘wicked crime’ and had showed no remorse.
He told him: ‘She was willing to trust that you would keep her safe when she agreed to accompany you on your project to climb Arthur’s Seat despite a fear of heights and being pregnant.
‘She was entitled to expect your protection and support.’
Lord Beckett added: ‘As a result of your actions, Fawziyah Javed died far from home on a Scottish hillside and her loving family are left devastated and will never be the same again.
‘Had she lived she would have given birth to your child some months later, but that life was also extinguished by you.’
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