A woman was pushed 50ft to her death from a beauty spot by a controlling husband who flew into a fit of fury after demanding she “stop behaving like a British woman”.

Lawyer Fawziyah Javed, 31, died after suffering devastating injuries when she was thrown from Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh by Kashif Anwar in September 2021.

Fawziyah’s mother Yasmin Javed yesterday revealed how the “evil, jealous and insecure” brute was unable to accept his wife being an independent person.

And in a recording Fawziyah, secretly made before her death, the killer demanded she alter her behaviour. Ms Javed said: “He didn’t like the fact that Fawzi had her own voice, her own opinions. He didn’t like that.”

Her daughter married Anwar, an optical assistant, in an Islamic ceremony in their hometown of Leeds on Christmas Day, 2020.

But just three months later he knocked his bride unconscious in a cemetery, her murder trial was told.

At around the same time, he put a pillow over her face and punched her in the head.

The court also heard Anwar withdrew £12,000 from her bank account while she was sleeping.

Ms Javed pleaded with her daughter to leave Anwar but she insisted she was biding her time and knew what she was doing. She added: “She had contacted divorce lawyers to get the ball rolling to get a divorce because he always said, ‘I’m never going to divorce you’.

“And she’d also made voice recordings of him where he’s being threatening and abusive towards her. So obviously that was all evidence of how he was treating her.”

In one voice recording Fawziyah is heard saying: “You’ve ruined my life.” Anwar replies: “I’ll tell you one thing. You end this and I will ruin yours.”

In another recording, Anwar is heard telling his wife: “Who do you think you are? You’re not a man … so come back tomorrow like you’ve been told.” His wife asks: “What’s your problem?”

Anwar replies: “My problem? Don’t challenge me, do not be that British woman.

“Because I’m telling you, it will not work. I promise it will not work. It won’t work with me.”

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Fawziyah visited the police twice to make a record of Anwar’s behaviour but asked them not to intervene.

The second report was made just days before Anwar killed her, on a weekend away to Edinburgh in September 2021.

After plunging from the cliff edge, Fawziyah was able to tell passers-by what had happened, before she died in hospital.

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

Fawziyah’s mother said she cannot forget her daughter’s final words: “‘Am I going to die? Is my baby going to die?’”

The grief-stricken family claim they have still not retrieved all their daughter’s possessions and believe Anwar continues to exert influence from his prison cell by ordering his family to keep hold of them – something his family disputes.

Mrs Javed believes Anwar’s motives for murdering her daughter stemmed from honour-based control, jealousy, and insecurity.

Honour-based abuse is a crime or incident committed to protect or defend the “honour” of a family or community.

But Police Scotland, who carried out the investigation into Fawziyah’s murder, said they did not
identify any honour-based abuse, adding that domestic abuse and coercive control were the main factors in the case.

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