Dad told police he killed Sara Sharif, court hears

The begetter of 10-year-old Sara Sharif called constabulary from Pakistan and admitted helium killed her astatine her Surrey home, a tribunal heard.

Sara's begetter Urfan, 42, her stepmother Beinash Batool, 30, and her uncle Faisal Malik, 29, are accused of murdering the girl, who was recovered dormant astatine her location successful Woking successful August past year.

All 3 person pleaded not guilty.

On Monday astatine the Old Bailey, authoritative Bill Emlyn Jones KC told the tribunal Sara had been the unfortunate of superior convulsive and carnal battle for “weeks and weeks, astatine least”.

He said Sara had dozens of abstracted injuries, externally and internally, extended bruising, burns and breached bones, aged and new.

Mr Sharif called Surrey Police from Pakistan wherever the household had fled earlier her assemblage was recovered and told the relation that helium killed his daughter.

The authoritative said that successful the call, which lasted 8 minutes and 34 seconds, Mr Sharif told the relation that helium “legally punished her” and she died.

Later successful the telephone to police, Sara’s begetter is said to person told the relation that Sara had been naughty and that helium past bushed her up, jurors heard.

“It wasn’t my volition to termination her, but I bushed her up excessively much”, the authoritative said Mr Sharif went connected to archer the operator.”

However, Mr Jones KC added: “Sara had not conscionable been beaten up. Her treatment, surely successful the past fewer weeks of her life, had been appalling and brutal.”

Jurors besides heard that constabulary recovered Sara’s assemblage connected a bottommost bunkbed nether covers arsenic if she was asleep.

“But she was not asleep, she was dead,” Mr Jones KC told the jury.

The 3 defendants, who lived with Sara earlier her decease successful August past year, are besides charged with causing oregon allowing the decease of a child, which they deny.

The proceedings continues.