A pregnant lady allegedly murdered when her husband pushed her off Arthur’s Seat had a concern of heights and was reluctant to go to the landmark, a courtroom has heard.
Fawziyah Javed, 31, made the remark to a good friend simply weeks earlier than she fell to her demise from the steep hill in Edinburgh, killing her and her unborn youngster, jurors had been instructed.
Kashif Anwar, 29, denies murdering his spouse in September 2021 by pushing her from the landmark, together with a cost of performing in a threatening and abusive means in direction of her at a lodge within the metropolis the day earlier than the alleged homicide.
Lubna Qasim, who gave proof on Friday on the third day of the trial on the High Court in Edinburgh, stated her good friend Ms Javed instructed her that Anwar was “really keen on visiting Arthur’s Seat”.
But Ms Javed seemed Ms Qasim, 33, straight within the eyes and instructed her: “I’m not so sure”, the courtroom heard.
The dialog occurred throughout a Walima – a Muslim marriage celebration occasion – held for the couple on 30 August 2021. Ms Qasim instructed the courtroom that on the occasion Ms Javed’s mom, Nighat Yasmin Javed, had appeared “anxious and nervous and stressed”.
Ms Qasim, who described Ms Javed as “caring, generous and kind”, additionally instructed the courtroom she had recognized her good friend was petrified of heights after they’d beforehand visited a cable automotive collectively within the Spanish metropolis of Barcelona.
She stated Ms Javed, from Pudsey in Leeds, appeared extra curious about issues like buying than strolling.
Ian Duguid KC, for Anwar, instructed the courtroom a relative of his consumer had talked about Arthur’s Seat to him as a spot to go to whereas in Edinburgh. He stated Ms Javed had additionally been eager on strolling within the Yorkshire Dales.
Accused ‘threatened to wreck spouse’s life’
Meanwhile the jury was additionally instructed that Ms Javed had beforehand referred to as the police about Anwar’s alleged behaviour.
When officers from West Yorkshire Police attended her mother and father’ house in April 2021 she gave an announcement detailing abuse claims.
PC Gemma Smales, 34, learn out the doc from Ms Javed, which included the road: “I may be his wife but I’m not his possession.”
In the assertion, Ms Javed stated her husband had threatened to bodily harm her members of the family if she ever cheated on him, and that she had discovered herself unconscious in a Pudsey graveyard.
Ms Javed additional alleged she was slapped throughout the face by her husband in an argument and that he had used abusive language, together with calling her a “b****”.
The courtroom heard she had additionally claimed her husband had as soon as ordered her to “stop behaving like a British woman”, threatened to tug her mom’s “tongue out if she says I need help”, and warned he would “ruin” Ms Javed’s life if she ever ended the connection.
The courtroom was instructed Anwar, who was finding out optometry on the University of Bradford, started the connection with Ms Javed after an opportunity assembly on the Trinity buying advanced in Leeds metropolis centre.
The trial continues.
Source: information.sky.com”