Arthur's Seat murder accused told wife 'If you died during childbirth that would be OK', trial hears

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A woman whose husband is accused of pushing her off Arthur’s Seat set up a code to alert cops if she was in danger, her mum told a trial.Kashif Anwar, 29, is charged with murdering Fawziyah Javed and causing the death of her unborn child at the Edinburgh landmark.Her mother Nighat Yasmin Javed told a jury how she was “very worried” about Kashif’s “violent” behaviour towards her daughter.The court also heard from a hospital worker who said she was told by a patient she’d overheard Anwar telling Fawziyah: “If you died during childbirth that would be OK.

I would be free.”Fawziyah's 56-year-old mum recounted a conversation with Fawziyah where a code phrase was invented, adding: “I said if you feel that you are in danger, just text me ‘I like cream cakes’, and I will contact the police.”Nighat said the move was due to the “abuse, the violence, the aggression, and coercive control” in the relationship.She told the High Court in Edinburgh on Thursday that she and her and her daughter first met Anwar together at an opticians in Leeds, near their home in Pudsey, where he worked as an optical assistant.The couple had an Islamic wedding on December 25 2020, but the trial heard concerns were raised within months.Nighat said her daughter’s calls and texts were monitored by the accused, and between three or four months after the wedding her daughter wanted out of the marriage.She said: “(Fawziyah) didn’t want to stay in a marriage like that, she wanted to leave.”The court was played a recording of Fawziyah, who worked as an employment lawyer, phoning a legal firm for advice on getting a divorce.Later the court heard from midwife Elizabeth Petty, 41, who was working at Leeds General Infirmary on August 23 2021, ten days before Fawziyah