Pregnant woman ‘fell 40 to 50ft to her death’ on Arthur’s Seat after being ‘pushed by husband’

A PREGNANT woman whose husband is accused of murdering her at a popular city landmark fell 40 to 50ft down a hillside to her death, a court heard today.

Kashif Anwar, 29, has denied assaulting and murdering his wife Fawziyah Javed, 31, at Arthur’s Seat, in Edinburgh, on September 2 in 2021.

He is accused of pushing her from a height and causing her to fall resulting in her sustaining multiple blunt-force trauma injuries and being so severely injured that she died there.

It is also said in the murder charge that as a consequence he caused the death of her unborn child.

The High Court in Edinburgh heard that an assessment was made by mountain rescue services where the expectant mother fell from and where the first impact occurred when she landed on the hillside.

A cone was placed at the impact site and a small tent was placed over her at her last resting place before her body was recovered from the city landmark.

Detective Sergeant Christopher Edmunds, 46, said that above the cone was “a sharp drop” and a big dent was in the ground at the impact site.

The crime scene manager was shown photos of a route below the summit of the hill where he said there was a sharp drop with the cone below and the final resting place beyond that.

He told advocate depute Alex Prentice KC that if you were on that path you would be aware of the drop.

The prosecutor asked whether it looked like an easy route to take to descend from the summit and the officer replied: “No”.

Mr Prentice asked: “Would you require any experience to come to that conclusion?”

The detective said: “No.”

The officer agreed that there would have been plenty of opportunity to turn back.

Defence counsel Ian Duguid KC asked the officer that if he was right and it was “so obviously dangerous” why had people followed this path previously.

He responded: “I have no idea. I can’t speak for what other people have done.”

The trial before Lord Beckett continues.

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