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Posted: 2024-04-17T12:00:09Z | Updated: 2024-04-17T12:00:09Z

Dont let my husband near me. He pushed me.

These were among the last words spoken by Fawziyah Javed, a 31-year-old British attorney, as she lay critically injured on a rocky Scottish hillside, 50 feet below the clifftop where shed been hiking with her husband. She was 17 weeks pregnant and had just told him she wanted a divorce.

Javed had been married to Kashif Anwar, then 27, for less than nine months when she succumbed to her injuries that night in September 2021. At the top of the cliff, a Scottish landmark known as Arthurs Seat, Anwar told bystanders he didnt have a cellphone, and asked them to call the police. He claimed that he and his wife had both tripped, but that hed managed to right himself while she plummeted to the slope below.

But the evidence told a different story, according to numerous witnesses who testified when Anwar was tried for his wifes murder.

No voice was louder than that of the woman he killed.

Her account, and the evidence shed collected documenting her husbands abuse, made Javed a star witness at the trial for her own murder. The trial, held in Edinburgh in March 2023, is the focus of The Push: Murder on a Cliff, a riveting new courtroom documentary currently streaming on Channel 4 in the U.K.