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Surrey Police
Sara Sharif's assemblage was recovered astatine her location successful Woking connected 10 August past year
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A 10-year-old miss who allegedly died astatine the hands of her father, stepmother and uncle had dozens of injuries, aged and new, erstwhile her assemblage was found, a tribunal has heard.
Sara Sharif was recovered with injuries including puncture wounds, burns, bruising and abrasions astatine the household location successful Woking, Surrey, jurors astatine the Old Bailey were told.
A post-mortem introspection recovered Sara had suffered injuries including "probable quality wound marks", an robust pain and scalding from blistery water.
Her begetter Urfan Sharif, 42, stepmother Beinash Batool, 30, and uncle, Faisal Malik, 29, person denied murder.
Pathologist Dr Nathaniel Cary, who conducted the post-mortem, told the tribunal Sara had a "gaping" puncture coiled to her head, arsenic good arsenic signs of being deed by an elongated entity beneath her belly button.
He besides confirmed that Sara’s bruising had indicated determination had been a blunt interaction of immoderate description.
Sara’s assemblage besides had a fig of scars from erstwhile injuries, helium added.
The tribunal antecedently heard that Sara was hooded, burned and beaten during much than 2 years of abuse.
She had suffered 11 fractures to her spine, burns to her buttocks, caused by a home iron, and signs of a traumatic encephalon injury, the tribunal was told.
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.
Urfan Sharif, Beinash Batool and Faisal Malik are each facing 2 charges relating to the decease of Sara Sharif
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 earlier her death, are besides charged with causing oregon allowing the decease of a child, which they deny.
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