Nazia Jamil, 35, discovered her mother’s body after returning to their home in Byres Road, Glasgow, last Wednesday night, and finding the front door slightly ajar and the flat in darkness
Javed Sattar, a project manager and presenter at Azad FM, where both Mrs Jamil, 54, and her daughter worked as presenters, is reported to have received a phonecall from Nazia shortly after she made the horrific discovery.
Mr Sattar told a newspaper: “She basically just phoned me and said ‘Javed, my mum’s dead, my mum’s dead, and I need you.’
“The front two doors were kind of open and she thought that’s quite strange, went in the living room, and some of the pillows were a bit untidy.
“She thought, ‘why’s the kitchen door shut?’ because the kitchen door’s never really shut. She opened the kitchen door and saw her mother just lying there in a pool of blood.”
Other reports indicated Mrs Jamil, a widow who was originally from Pakistan, was killed with a heavy glass bottle, which caused fatal head injuries.
Since the murder, it has also emerged that a former colleague of the victim, who has not been named, received anonymous threats of violence after he discussed issues such as domestic violence and forced marriage on air.
The former presenter, claimed Mrs Jamil, who worked as an agony aunt at the station, had been concerned about the threats, which ultimately forced him to change his mobile number and leave the station in 2005 because of concerns for his family’s safety.
“It was because I challenged people about their views of women in Asian culture. There are some in the community who are very aggressive and threatening if programmes do not fit their religious views,” the former colleague of Mrs Jamil’s said.
“We used to chat and (she) raised concerns about listener reaction.”
Mrs Jamil has been widely described as a popular and warm figure in the Pakistani community and at the radio station, where she was known as Aunty because of the advice she gave on air.
A spokesman at the station, which broadcasts in English, Urdu and Punjabi, said earlier this week that he did not believe her work had any connection to her murder. Police have yet to establish a motive.
But Mohammad Sarwar, MP for South Glasgow, said he was of the opinion that it may have been Mrs Jamil’s work in mediating family disputes on-air that led to her death.
He is reported to have said: “This is only my opinion but I think the most likely motive may be the radio show.
“I have spoken to people in the village when Nasim’s family come from and my own gut feeling is grievances between families she dealt with could have led to this.
“Problems between husband and wife can have serious implications and I have been involved in some very intense situations involving families in the community. If there were issues between them, it could be they were the most serious kind. There could be ill feelings in some quarters.”
The station is answering no further inquiries about the murder following a request for privacy from the family.
It has been suggested the killer is likely to have been someone the victim knew, as she was unlikely to have let a stranger into her home. It is also thought unlikely she would let a man in.
It is known that she attended a doctor’s appointment around 1.30pm on the day she died.
Strathclyde Police have described her death as “brutal” and believe that the killer may have left the flat with bloodstained clothing.
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