Dad of killer who murdered fiancée moans about paying for engagement ring

01 March 2024 , 16:50

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The 29-year-old was found guilty of the murder and ordered to serve at least 20 years behind bars (Image: PA)

The father of a man who murdered his pregnant wife is unhappy about being left out of pocket after spending more than £6,000 on the victim's engagement ring.

Employment lawyer Fawziyah Javed and her unborn child died after she was attacked by her husband, Kashif Anwar, 29, during a weekend break in 2021. During the trial, it was revealed that after being attacked at Arthur's Seat, she lay critically at the foot of a mountain and told a passer-by: "Don't let my husband near me, he pushed me."

Now, the case is the focus of a new two-part Channel 4 documentary called The Push. The 29-year-old was found guilty of the murder and ordered to serve at least 20 years behind bars. His father Mohammed claimed he had paid £6,300 for a diamond ring when the couple got engaged.

Now, the case is the focus of a new two-part Channel 4 documentary called The Push (Yasmin Javed / SWNS)

In an interview filmed at Edinburgh High Court during the murder trial, he moaned that the ring had not been returned to him by police. He also claimed that Fawziyah had become his daughter after marrying his son and insisted they were a happy couple.

He said: "When Kashif got engaged she said 'Kashif I want a diamond ring'. You know how much that cost me? £6,300. I haven't got it back yet from the police. They were a very happy couple. Every family has ups and downs.

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"My son talks loud but they were both happy and she was alright with Kashif. If she wasn't happy and she was ending the relationship why did she come to Scotland? When she fell me and my wife cried a lot. She was our daughter, not their daughter.

"We believe when a girl comes to your family, she's your daughter. My daughters are married. She was our daughter. The family is thinking wrong, I'm not thinking wrong."

During the documentary, Fawziyah's family condemned Anwar's family for showing no remorse for what he had done, according to the Daily Record. Her mother Yasmin Javed told the filmmakers: "His parents have never said how heartbroken they are, they have never shown any remorse. In fact they have just added to our pain."

Her uncle Shahid Farouk said: "To see his mother waving at him in the public gallery, blowing kisses at him, it's absolutely disgraceful. Your son is charged with murder and you have shown no remorse."

Secretly, Fawziyah had recorded phone calls of Anwar threatening her and went to the police twice so that there was a record of his abusive behaviour, although she didn't want them to intervene at that point. The second police report was made just days before Anwar killed her in September 2021. The Push will air on Channel 4 on Sunday and Monday at 9pm.

Stuart MacDonald