Sara Sharif's stepmum would not call 999, jury told

The begetter of 10-year-old Sara Sharif told a tribunal helium gave his girl CPR aft she died and that his woman refused to telephone for an ambulance.

Urfan Sharif said helium came location connected the evening of 8 August past twelvemonth to find Beinash Batool sitting connected the level successful the couple's bedroom, holding Sara.

Police recovered Sara’s assemblage with dozens of injuries astatine the family’s location successful Woking, Surrey, 2 days later.

Mr Sharif, 42, Ms Batool, 30, and Sara's uncle, Faisal Malik, 29, person denied execution astatine the Old Bailey.

Giving evidence, Sara's begetter said Ms Batool told him the miss had fallen down the stairs portion playing with different child, and that present she was “pretending” and “being dramatic".

Mr Sharif said helium told Sara to “get up” and took her arm, but it was limp.

“Then I took Sara from Beinash’s lap," helium said.

"[Sara] whispered and opened her rima a bit. [Sara] said she is thirsty and she needs water."

Mr Sharif told the assemblage that helium called for h2o and enactment Sara connected the bed, but his woman told him to enactment her connected the floor.

“I shouted for an ambulance due to the fact that I could not perceive her breathing, I checked her pulse nether the ear, it was none. I had done my archetypal assistance grooming 2 times,” helium said.

He said that helium gave Sara CPR for much than 10 minutes but Ms Batool told him to stop.

Mr Sharif said that erstwhile helium asked wherever the ambulance was, Ms Batool replied: "It’s nary point. There’s nary request due to the fact that she’s dead.”

Mr Sharif said helium noticed a reddish people astir Sara's neck, and astatine this constituent Ms Batool told a "second story" claiming Sara had been warring with different child.

Defence barrister Naeem Mian KC asked, “Why didn’t you telephone the police?”

Mr Sharif replied: “I was reasoning astir the different kids. They are going to beryllium taken into care. [The child] is going to spell to prison.”

He told the court: “So overmuch was going connected nether my chemoreceptor and I didn't cognize it.”

That evening, Ms Batool called a question cause to commencement the process of booking flights for the full family, isolated from Sara, to spell to Pakistan, Mr Sharif said. They near the state the adjacent day.

Hours aft Sara had died, Ms Batool besides showed Mr Sharif connected her telephone the quality betwixt execution and manslaughter, jurors heard.

“She is precise bully astatine Googling stuff,” Mr Sharif said.

He besides told jurors that determination was a treatment arsenic to whether Mr Sharif should instrumentality the blasted for Sara’s death. He added that Ms Batool wanted Mr Malik to instrumentality the blasted arsenic helium had nary responsibilities.

When constabulary arrived astatine the location aft Mr Sharif had called from Pakistan, determination was a handwritten enactment by Sara’s assemblage that read: “Whoever spot this enactment it’s maine Urfan Sharif who killed my girl by beating.”

The assemblage has been told that Ms Batool and Mr Sharif quality each other’s mentation of events.

The tribunal antecedently heard that Sara was hooded, burned and beaten during much than 2 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.

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 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.