This is the second the uncle of a pregnant lawyer pushed to her dying from Arthur’s Seat by her abusive husband breaks down in tears after studying a textual content he despatched advising her to ‘work in your marriage’.
Fawziyah Javed, from Leeds, was thrown 50ft off Arthur’s Seat within the capital of Edinburgh in September 2021, following a horrific marketing campaign of abuse by her accomplice, Kashif Anwar.
Anwar, now 31, was jailed for not less than 20 years after being discovered responsible of homicide throughout a trial on the High Court in Edinburgh .
The cold-blooded homicide of Fawziyah is explored in The Push: Murder on the Cliff, which additionally follows Anwar’s trial and his conviction.
In the two-part Channel 4 documentary sequence, Fawziyah’s uncle Shahid Farouk, 53, revealed a harrowing textual content he despatched to his niece after she married her killer in December 2020.
In the message, he advised the 31-year-old that ‘life by no means goes in keeping with plan’, earlier than telling her to ‘give and take’ in her marriage and never ‘be coming residence and moaning about issues to your mum and pa.’
Shahid went on to say he ‘blamed’ himself for writing the message, including: ‘Maybe that was what stopped her from telling me [what was happening].’
In the Channel 4 documentary, Fawziyah’s uncle Shahid Farouk, 53, revealed a harrowing textual content he despatched to his niece after she married her killer in December 2020.
Pregnant Fawziayh Javed, 31, died after being thrown off Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh by her abusive husband Kashif Anwar in September 2021
Fawziyah married the optical assistant in an Islamic ceremony on December 25, 2020 – it was solely three months after he knocked her unconscious in a cemetery, the courtroom heard
The grieving uncle had despatched the message as a reply to a message from Fawziyah that stated: ‘Salams, I hope you’re effectively Inshallah. I simply wished to say thanks very a lot for the marriage cash.’
He replied the following day to say: ‘Wa alaikum Salam, I hope you’re effectively and settling down together with your new household.
‘Remember life by no means goes in keeping with plan. it is like a rollercoaster. Don’t be coming residence and moaning about issues to your mum and pa. Instead, work in your marriage and provides and take and compromise.
‘But I need you to recollect one factor, till my final day of life your Mammu is and can at all times be right here for you.’
Viewers can see Shahid struggling to learn out the textual content as he holds again the tears, earlier than saying: ‘I blame myself for writing that, saying “don’t be coming home for the little things”, perhaps that was what stopped her from telling me.’
Fawziyah was an employment lawyer and 17-weeks pregnant along with her first baby when she fell to her dying by the hands of ‘jealous, evil and insecure’ Anwar.
She had married the optical assistant in an Islamic ceremony on December 25, 2020.
But it was solely three months after their nuptials that Anwar rendered the 31-year-old unconscious in a cemetery, the courtroom was advised throughout the trial into her homicide.
During the identical time interval, he additionally hit Fawziyah within the head and held a pillow over her face.
The High Court in Edinburgh additionally heard that Anwar took £12,000 out of the pregnant lady’s checking account while she slept.
Viewers can see Shahid struggling to learn out to textual content as maintain again the tears
Yasmin claims she needed to struggle ‘tooth and nail’ for her late daughter’s belongings from Anwar’s (pictured) household – nevertheless she claims not all of them have been returned
Yasmin says Anwar (left) begrudged her solicitor daughter for being a well-educated and impartial lady (proper)
Fawziyah had reported Anwar for the second time solely days earlier than she was pushed 50 ft off Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh throughout the couple’s weekend vacation (pictured: the space of Fawziyah’s fall)
In the message, he advised the 31-year-old that ‘life by no means goes in keeping with plan’, earlier than telling her to ‘give and take’ in her marriage
Fawziyah, who was 17-weeks pregnant along with her first baby on the time of her dying, had been secretly recording her husband to collect proof in opposition to him.
In one recording Fawziyah will be heard telling her husband that he had ruined her life, to which he ominously retorted: ‘I’ll inform you one factor. You finish this and I’ll break yours.’
The solicitor had visited police on two separate events to report her husband, and to make sure there was a file of her allegations, nevertheless on the time, she didn’t need officers to get entangled.
Her second police report was made simply days earlier than Anwar killed her on their weekend getaway in Edinburgh.
After falling 50ft, the pregnant lady managed to inform bystanders what her husband had performed to her earlier than she handed away.
Reflecting on her immense loss, her mom Yasmin shared she had not solely misplaced her beloved daughter, however her unborn grandson.
‘Fawziyah’s final phrases “Am I going to die? Is my baby going to die?”, these phrases go spherical and spherical in my head each single day,’ Yasmin tearfully shared.
‘Alongside the grief and ache, I can not get these phrases out of my thoughts.’
She added: ‘Two lives have been misplaced. It’s double homicide.’
Fawziyah’s ultimate phrases asking bystanders if she and her child had been going to die are etched into her mom’s thoughts
In April, 2023, Kashif Anwar (left) was sentenced to a minimal jail sentence of 20-years for murdering his spouse and inflicting the dying of her unborn baby
Despite Fawziyah’s worry of heights, the lawyer accompanied her husband when he urged they go to the rocky summit of Arthur’s Seat, a landmark that gives views over Edinburgh
Discussing her ‘articulate’, ‘sturdy minded’ and ‘educated’ daughter, Yasmin rv aimed to boost consciousness about home abuse.
‘She had someplace to go like her dad and mom – and he or she was within the means of coming again residence.
‘She was financially very steady, so she did not should depend on the abuser financially and this occurred to her. It might occur to anyone,’ Yasmin stated.
‘I simply need to put the message on the market that no one is immune from one of these factor.’
In April, 2023, Kashif Anwar was sentenced to a minimal jail sentence of 20-years for murdering his spouse and inflicting the dying of her unborn baby.
If you’ve gotten been affected by home abuse, you may contact Women’s Aid or Men’s Advice Line.