A man has been jailed 20 years for murdering his pregnant wife by pushing her off the edge of Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh.
Kashif Anwar, 29, was found guilty by a jury for the murder of his wife, Fawziyah Javed, 31, after shoving her from the hill in September 2021. Fawziyah suffered multiple blunt force injuries which ultimately led to her death, and that of her unborn child.
The man, from Leeds in West Yorkshire, denied the charge but after a week-long trial a jury found him responsible. He faces a life sentence.
Ms Javed, who was around 17 weeks pregnant when she was pushed, used her dying words to reveal it was her abusive husband who caused her to fall around 50ft down the hillside. Daniyah Rafique, 24, managed to reach to the dying employment lawyer on the side of the landmark in the Scottish capital, where she was told: “Don’t let my husband near me, he pushed me.”
The court heard Pc Rhiannon Clutton, 35, was told by Ms Javed her husband pushed her because she “told him I wanted to end (the marriage)”.
The couple were married for nine months.
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