Sara's injuries comparable to car crash, jury told

Ten-year-old Sara Sharif suffered injuries which were comparable to a idiosyncratic progressive successful a car crash, a tribunal has heard.

The girl's body, which was recovered successful her family's location successful Surrey past year, had signs of healing spinal fractures which had past been rebroken, 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 2 years of abuse.

Giving evidence, paediatric radiologist Prof Owen Arthurs told the tribunal that spinal fractures were “very rare” and usually caused by precocious interaction oregon precocious velocity trauma, specified arsenic roadworthy postulation incidents.

He besides told jurors that Sara’s cervix injuries were “extremely rare”.

“The astir apt origin is manual strangulation with a grade of force, which we would mostly recognise successful hanging,” helium told the court.

The tribunal previously heard that Sara had suffered puncture wounds, burns, bruising and abrasions, and a post-mortem introspection recovered Sara had "probable quality wound marks", an robust pain and scalding from blistery water.

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 Sara's 5 brothers and sisters 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.