Sara Sharif’s dad ‘called police to say he’d killed 10-year-old’ --[Reported by Umva mag]

The father of Sara Sharif called 999 from Pakistan to say he had ‘legally punished her and she died’, a court heard.

Urfan Sharif, 42, also left a note next to 10-year-old Sara’s body on her bunk bed which said: ‘I swear to God that my intention was not to kill her. But I lost it’.

Sharif, along with partner Beinash Batool, 30, and brother Faisal Malik, 29, are all accused of murdering Sara at her home in Woking last year.

All three deny murder and their trial at the Old Bailey began this morning.

In a 999 call at 2:47am on August 10, 2023, taxi driver Sharif said: ‘I’ve killed my daughter. I’ve legally punished her and she died.’

Asked for further details, he told the operator: ‘I beat her up, it wasn’t my intention to kill her but I beat her up too much.’

Sharif then fled to Pakistan alongside Batool and Malik, where they spent more than a month following Sara’s death.

They were arrested on September 13 last year at Gatwick Airport having flown back from Dubai.

A post-mortem revealed Sara had suffered ‘multiple and extensive injuries’ over a ‘sustained and extended’ period of time.

Sara had probably died on August 8, two days before Urfan called police. She was being home schooled in the months leading up to her death, and before that was a pupil at St Mary’s Church of England primary school in Byfleet.

Bill Emlyn Jones, KC, prosecuting, described what happened after Sharif called 999: ‘The police went to the address he had given. It was quiet and seemingly empty.

‘It was very tidy. In an upstairs bedroom, on a bottom bunk bed, the police found the body of a little girl, lying in bed, under the cover, as if asleep, but she was not asleep.

‘She was dead.

‘Her name was Sara Sharif, and she had been just ten years old when she was killed.’

Mr Jones went on to describe injuries suffered by Sara who had been the victim of ‘a serious violent of assault and physical abuse for weeks and weeks, at least’.

She had suffered extensive bruising, broken bones and burns.

‘And throughout, these three defendants were the adults living in the house where Sara had lived, living in the house where she had suffered and living in the house where she had died,’ he added.

The prosecutor told the jury that all three defendants ‘played their part’ in the violence and it was ‘inconceivable’ that just one of them had acted alone.

Addressing the jury, Mr Emlyn Jones said: ‘Ask yourselves, how could just one person have carried out so much abuse, so many assaults, without the others knowing about it and witnessing it with their own eyes?

‘If any one of them was not a part of it, but had seen it, why then was nothing done to stop it, or report it?

‘Each of them denies that they were the one responsible for any of that violence and abuse.

‘Each of them seeks to deflect the blame onto one or both of the others, to shift responsibility away from themselves, onto someone else.

‘In other words, they are pointing the finger at each other.’

Sharif, Batool and Malik all also deny causing or allowing the death of a child.

The trial continues.

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