Tragic lawyer's killer husband ordered her to stop acting like a British woman'

Victim's mum blasts jealous brute

- Paul Jeeves

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 in 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.