{"id":47017,"date":"2024-03-03T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T09:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2001913"},"modified":"2024-03-03T11:50:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T10:50:39","slug":"fawziyah-javeds-mother-on-why-she-wanted-murder-trial-shown-on-channel-4s-the-push","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/fawziyah-javeds-mother-on-why-she-wanted-murder-trial-shown-on-channel-4s-the-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Fawziyah Javed\u2019s mother on why she wanted murder trial shown on Channel 4\u2019s The Push"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fawziyah Javed was 17 weeks pregnant when her husband killed her. Her mother tells Radio Times why she wanted his murder trial shown on TV. <\/p>

By Sherna Noah\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Sunday, 03 March 2024 at 09:00 AM<\/p>

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Fawziyah Javed was 17 weeks pregnant with her first child when she was murdered on 2 September 2021. A \u201cbeautiful soul\u201d with a contagious laugh, the lawyer was pushed off Arthur\u2019s Seat in Edinburgh by her husband two days before her 32nd birthday and fell 50ft to her death.<\/p>\n

Today, her mother Yasmin is broken by the death of her only child. The notion that the passing of time could one day soften her pain is proving cruel and false.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s getting harder and harder,\u201d she says, tears falling.<\/p>\n

Talking about Fawziyah is difficult, but Yasmin wants to tell her daughter\u2019s story to highlight the blight of domestic violence, hidden behind so many front doors across Britain.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I can tell people how much this has destroyed me and my family\u2019s life, his actions \u2013 it can make a difference,\u201d she says. \u201cIf it can happen to Fawziyah, it can happen to anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fawziyah \u201cwas very clever, very articulate, independent and strong. She knew her rights as a woman.\u201d And, Yasmin adds: \u201cShe helped convict him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fawziyah Javed with her mother and father.<\/span><\/figcaption> Javed Family Archive<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Shortly before she died among gorse bushes on the Edinburgh beauty spot while on a mini-break with her husband, Kashif Anwar, Fawziyah told a female police officer what had happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe pushed me,\u201d she said, because she\u2019d tried to end her relationship with him. In pain, with multiple injuries, she asked whether she was going to die, whether her baby was going to die, and why Anwar had treated her the way that he did.<\/p>\n

Anwar, 29, an optical assistant from Pudsey near Leeds, claimed he had slipped and bumped into his wife after taking a selfie, causing her to fall, but in April 2023 he was found guilty of murdering Fawziyah and causing the death of her unborn child. His trial at the High Court in Edinburgh was filmed, with Fawziyah\u2019s family\u2019s support, for Channel 4\u2019s two-part documentary, The Push: Murder on the Cliff.<\/p>\n

Despite Anwar being sentenced to a minimum of 20 years behind bars, Yasmin says it\u2019s her family in Leeds who are serving the real life sentence.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s in prison, but he\u2019s still alive. He\u2019s living, breathing and allowed phone calls and visitors. We\u2019re the ones with the real life sentence. We\u2019ll be in pain and grief and in darkness until our last breath.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anwar\u2019s abusive nature wasn\u2019t obvious at first. He and Fawziyah first met when she accompanied her mother to an appointment to buy new glasses. Their relationship began after they met each other again, and Anwar told her she was the kind of woman he wanted to marry \u2013 which they did on Christmas Day 2020. He came across as \u201cvery charming, very charismatic, polite and well-mannered,\u201d says Yasmin, but \u201che was a Jekyll-and-Hyde character\u201d. Anwar soon became possessive, abusive and hot-tempered.<\/p>\n