A man has been jailed for a minimum of 20 years for killing his pregnant wife by pushing her 50ft off a cliff edge at an Edinburgh beauty spot.
Kashif Anwar, 29, killed 31-year-old Fawziyah Javed when she plunged from a rocky outcrop on Arthur’s Seat during a holiday in September 2021.
As she lay dying, Ms Javed, from Yorkshire, told a police officer her husband had pushed her.
Anwar claimed he had slipped and bumped into his wife.
The jury at the High Court in Edinburgh rejected that defence and found him guilty of murdering Ms Javed, who was 17 weeks pregnant, and causing the death of her unborn child.
Anwar, from Pudsey, near Leeds, was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 20 years.
Judge Lord Beckett told him that his wife had been entitled to his protection and that he was guilty of a “wicked crime”.
He said: “You showed no remorse and made no attempt to save her.”
During a week-long trial at the High Court in Edinburgh, the jury heard Ms Javed’s mother say she believed her daughter was in a violent, coercive marriage.
Yasmin Javed said her daughter told her she planned to leave Anwar after a four-night mini-break to Edinburgh.
And as she lay dying on Arthur’s Seat, she told a police officer Anwar had pushed her as she had tried to end the relationship.
The court heard how Anwar, a student optician, first met Ms Javed, an employment law solicitor, when she accompanied her mother to buy new glasses.
They began a relationship after meeting again soon after.
Her mother told the court that Anwar and his parents visited her family in November 2019 to express his desire to marry her daughter.
They tied the knot on Christmas Day in 2020.