The discovery sparked an international manhunt for the relatives accused of the killing.
Sara Sharif was found dead in bed – with fractured bones, bites and burn marks throughout her body – at her family’s home in Woking, southern England, in August 2023.LONDON - The trial of three family members accused of murdering a 10-year-old British-Pakistani girl has shocked the UK, as details of the horrific abuse she endured have emerged in court.
Her father, 42-year-old taxi driver Urfan Sharif, step-mother Beinash Batool, 30, and uncle Faisal Malik, 29, returned to Britain in September 2023 and have been on trial since mid-October. They deny the charges.Pathologist and bone specialist Anthony Freemont told the jury he had concluded that was the result of “neck compression” most commonly caused by “manual strangulation”.
The court had previously learned of WhatsApp messages she had sent her sister over several years in which she reported that Sharif had hit Sara for being “rude and rebellious”.“She’s got a jinn in her,” Batool had added, referring to genie-like supernatural beings from mythology. Giving evidence earlier in the trial, teacher Helen Simmons described her as a “happy child”, who at times would be “sassy”.
Sitting in court behind plexiglass, the three defendants listened on Nov 1 morning with their heads bowed.
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