Jury shown video of Sara Sharif was dancing days before death

A video of ten-year-old Sara Sharif dancing astatine her household location days earlier she died has been shown to jurors.

The footage is believed to person been taken connected 6 August 2023, 4 days earlier Sara’s assemblage was recovered with dozens of injuries astatine the code successful Woking, Surrey, past year, the Old Bailey was told.

Her begetter Urfan Sharif, 42, stepmother Beinash Batool, 30, and uncle, Faisal Malik, 29, person denied murder.

Jurors antecedently heard the miss had been hooded, burned, bitten and beaten during much than two years of abuse.

A post-mortem introspection recovered Sara had suffered dozens of injuries including "probable quality wound marks", an robust pain and scalding from blistery h2o earlier she died connected 8 August 2023.

Under transverse examination, Caroline Carberry KC, for Ms Batool, enactment it to pathologist Dr Nathaniel Cary, who conducted the post-mortem, that Sara did not person a encephalon wounded astatine the constituent the video was taken.

Dr Cary said: “She is conscious. She’s moving, and she’s moving successful a co-ordinated manner.”

He besides agreed that Sara appeared to beryllium “co-ordinated, alert and smiling astatine the camera” during the video.

Dr Cary added that Sara was “moving remarkably well” successful the video, considering her different skeletal injuries.

Ms Carberry KC said the video had been filmed by Ms Batool, but the precise day and clip of video clip was to beryllium checked by the prosecution.

Prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones KC antecedently said a bloodstained cricket bat, a rolling pin with Sara’s DNA connected it, a metallic pole, a loop and enactment were recovered adjacent the family’s outhouse.

The tribunal besides antecedently heard Mr Sharif, Ms Batool and Mr Malik travelled to Islamabad, Pakistan, with different household members connected 9 August 2023, the time earlier her assemblage was found.

Prosecutors said Mr Sharif called constabulary from Pakistan and admitted helium killed Sara astir an hr aft his family’s formation had landed successful Islamabad.

Jurors were told Mr Sharif's lawsuit was that Ms Batool was liable for Sara's death, and helium made a mendacious confession connected the telephone telephone and besides successful a enactment to support his wife.

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