Sara Sharifs father denies stripping and jetwashing his daughters broken body after she was battered to death

Sara Sharifs father has denied her battered body was stripped and jetwashed in the garden as the family prepared to flee to Pakistan.


Sara Sharifs father has denied her battered body was stripped and jetwashed in the garden as the family prepared to flee to Pakistan.

Taxi driver Urfan Sharif, 42, his wife Beinash Batool, 30, and brother Faisal Malik, 29, are accused of being party to years-long abuse which culminated in her death last August.

The 10-year-old was wearing clean clothes when her body was found in a bunkbed at the family home in Woking, Surrey, after Sharif called police on arrival in Islamabad, the Old Bailey has heard.

Her soiled leggings and nappy were discarded in the garden near a jetwash with packaging tape and hoods in the bin, jurors were told.

Sharif has admitted tying the girl up with the tape and hitting her with a cricket bat, metal pole and mobile phone, even whacking her in the stomach as she lay dying in Batools lap.

But he has denied biting her on the arm and thigh, burning her with a domestic iron and boiling water and putting her head in a hood as he meted out punishments for naughty behaviour.

On Friday, prosecutor William Emlyn Jones KC suggested all three defendants were involved, despite Sharifs claim that he took full responsibility for Saras death.

On the defendants actions after her death, he said: You are all in this together. A problem you caused together, you all have to run away together.

The 10-year-old, was found dead at her home with dozens of injuries including human bite marks and iron burns, in Hammond Road, Woking, on August 10, 2023

The 10-year-old, was found dead at her home with dozens of injuries including human bite marks and iron burns, in Hammond Road, Woking, on August 10, 2023

Urfan Sharif, 42, (pictured) denies murder and causing or allowing the death of a child alongside his wife Beinash Batool, 30, and Saras uncle, 29-year-old McDonalds worker Faisal Malik

Urfan Sharif, 42, (pictured) denies murder and causing or allowing the death of a child alongside his wife Beinash Batool, 30, and Saras uncle, 29-year-old McDonalds worker Faisal Malik

Urfan spent his first six days in the witness box denying any involvement in Saras death but he dramatically told jurors on Wednesday that he took full responsibility for her death. An artists impression of Urfan (above)

Urfan spent his first six days in the witness box denying any involvement in Saras death but he dramatically told jurors on Wednesday that he took full responsibility for her death. An artists impression of Urfan (above)

You were all worried about yourselves, all three of you were thinking about yourselves and getting away with it.

On the same night as Saras death, Batool was on the phone to a travel agent arranging flights to Pakistan for the next day, the court heard.

Replaying the call, Mr Emlyn Jones said it was brutal that both she and Sharif sounded so calm as Saras body was upstairs.

Mr Emlyn Jones suggested the evidence showed she was then taken into the garden, stripped of her dirty leggings and nappy and cleaned.

He asked: She wasnt in the garden? You havent taken her to the shed? You had a lot to do to tidy up, the house was left immaculately tidy and the bin was full of packing tape, various hoods. And the body of Sara was cleaned, wasnt it?

She wasnt in the clothes she died in when you left the house, so she had been cleaned and washed?

There was a jetwash out in the garden with her dirty clothes and the rest of the rubbish. Those are the leggings Sara died in, entwined with a filthy nappy, bundled up with two towels, soaking wet.

Sharif had told jurors he only cleaned Saras head and did not remove her clothes.

Beinash Batool, 30
Faisal Malik, 29

Beinash Batool (left) and Faisal Malik deny murder and causing or allowing the death of a child 

Court artist drawing by Elizabeth Cook of Sarah Sharifs father Urfan Sharif (right) her uncle Faisal Malik (left), and stepmother Beinash Batool (centre), sitting alongside dock officers at the Old Bailey

Court artist drawing by Elizabeth Cook of Sarah Sharifs father Urfan Sharif (right) her uncle Faisal Malik (left), and stepmother Beinash Batool (centre), sitting alongside dock officers at the Old Bailey

The family house on Hammond Road in Woking, Surrey, where the body of 10-year-old Sara Sharif was found under a blanket in a bunk bed

The family house on Hammond Road in Woking, Surrey, where the body of 10-year-old Sara Sharif was found under a blanket in a bunk bed

Saras soiled leggings and nappy were discarded in the garden near a jetwash with packaging tape and hoods in the bin, jurors were told

Saras soiled leggings and nappy were discarded in the garden near a jetwash with packaging tape and hoods in the bin, jurors were told

Sara Sharif was found dead at the family home in Woking, Surrey, last August 10

Sara Sharif was found dead at the family home in Woking, Surrey, last August 10

Mr Emlyn Jones continued: Somebody did get her out of her clothes, somebody did wash her. Did he do it - Faisal?

The defendant replied: No sir, she wasnt washed.

The prosecutor queried how Maliks McDonalds work uniform came to be thrown in the bin outside along with packaging tape and hoods placed on top.

Sharif replied: I dont know, sir.

Mr Emlyn Jones said: We can take it, Mr Sharif, that until the moment comes the three of you decide you are going to run away to Pakistan, Mr Malik needs his McDonalds uniform. And then everything changes.

Sharif denied anything was thrown away on the night Sara died.

Mr Emlyn Jones said: When you left for Pakistan you had no plan to come back. Your plan was to go away so you could get away with what you had done.

Sharif insisted that he did come back to the UK, but the prosecutor asserted that was only because of pressure exerted on the family in Pakistan.

Sara was allegedly subjected to months of abuse, the trial has heard

Sara was allegedly subjected to months of abuse, the trial has heard  

Urfan Sharif is accused of battering his 10-year-old daughter Sara to death before fleeing to Pakistan last August

Urfan Sharif is accused of battering his 10-year-old daughter Sara to death before fleeing to Pakistan last August 

Sara Sharifs family going through passport control at Heathrow Airport in London

Sara Sharifs family going through passport control at Heathrow Airport in London

Re-examining, Sharifs lawyer Naeem Mian KC asked him about the injuries he did not take responsibility for - the burns, bites and use of a hood.

Weeping, Sharif denied doing this, but said: I take responsibility for everything that happened to my daughter.

I am her father, I didnt do what I should have done.

Sharif, Batool and Malik, formerly of Hammond Road, Woking, Surrey, deny murder and causing or allowing Saras death.

The trial continues.

Источник: Daily Online

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