Haunting footage shows police storming inside Sara Sharif's home just minutes after her father called and confessed 'I killed my daughter'
This is the haunting footage which shows police storming inside Sara Sharifs home just minutes after her father allegedly made a 999 call to confess to killing his daughter.
This is the haunting footage which shows police storming inside Sara Sharifs home just minutes after her father allegedly made a 999 call to confess to killing his daughter.
Officers are seen in bodycam footage driving on blue lights at night to the home in Woking, Surrey.
They tentatively walk up to the house, which is plunged in darkness, and shine their torches at the downstairs window.
After receiving no answer when they knock on the front door, they walk to the rear of the property and gain entrance by opening an unlocked door.
Once inside the eerily quiet home an officer repeatedly shouts police, hello before the camera pans to a colleague who is putting on purple latex gloves.
The chilling footage ends as an officer walks up the stairs towards Saras room where the 10-year-old schoolgirl was found dead lying under the covers in her bunk bed.
This is the haunting footage which shows police storming inside Sara Sharif s home just minutes after her father allegedly made a 999 call to confess to killing his daughter
Once inside the eerily quiet home an officer repeatedly shouts police, hello before the camera pans to a colleague who is putting on purple latex gloves
The chilling footage ends as an officer walks up the stairs towards Saras room where the 10-year-old schoolgirl was found dead lying under the covers in her bunk bed
Urfan Sharif, who is accused of murdering Sara before fleeing to Pakistan last August, allegedly made a 999 call confessing: I legally punished her, and she died.
A court heard that an eight minute call was alleged to have been made at 2.47am on August 10 - when Sharif was said to have already fled thousands of miles from the scene.
Beside her battered body was a note allegedly in Sharifs handwriting which read: Its me Urfan Sharif who killed my daughter by beating.
I swear to God that my intention was not to kill her. But I lost it. He added: I am running away because I am scared.
Prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones, KC, told jurors on Monday that Sharif and his family fled on August 9 last year leaving the body of his daughter behind following a brutal campaign of violence lasting weeks.
Two days after the murder, Sharif is alleged to have dialled 999, the Old Bailey heard.
Mr Emlyn Jones said: In that call, Urfan Sharif began by asking the operator to take down his address. It sounds like he is crying. The operator interrupted and said take a deep breath and tell me whats happened.
999 operators are used to hearing all kinds of dreadful things, but this one cannot have expected the answer he got to that question. Urfan Sharif told him Ive killed my daughter.
He used an odd expression: I legally punished her, and she died.
A little later, when asked for more detail, he added she was naughty, and then I beat her up, it wasnt my intention to kill her, but I beat her up too much.
Neighbours reported hearing sounds of screaming and crying coming from Saras home, jurors heard
Sara Sharif was found beaten to death in her bed at home in Woking, Surrey in August last year
The distressing handwritten notes allegedly left by Urfan Sharif that appear to show him confessing to the killing before he fled Britain
I swear to God that my intention was not to kill her, reads the note recovered by police
Urfan Sharif is accused of battering his 10-year-old daughter Sara to death before fleeing to Pakistan last August
Sara Sharif was restrained with a plastic bag taped around her head in a home-made hood and beaten with a cricket bat, jurors have been told
Sara had a plastic bag taped around her head as a home-made hood and was beaten with a cricket bat, the Old Bailey heard earlier today.
The 10-year-olds father Urfan Sharif is accused of battering his daughter to death before fleeing to Pakistan last August after subjecting the schoolgirl to weeks of brutal abuse.
Months before the murder, neighbours noted that Sara had started to wear a hijab in January 2023, which Prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones, KC, said was a bid to conceal the appalling injuries she was receiving at home.
Around the same time neighbours reported hearing sounds of screaming and crying coming from Saras home, jurors were told.
Primary school staff noticed bruising under Saras eyes and on her chin in March 2023, but the victim gave multiple conflicting stories as to how she got the bruises and teachers observed that she would often pull her hijab to hide her face, it was said.
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 today at the Old Bailey
When police searched the home after the murder they found Saras blood on the kitchen floor and on a hoover.
Leaning against a brick outhouse was a bloodstained cricket bat which bore Saras blood.
Inside the outhouse officers found a rolling pin, which also had Saras DNA.
In a wendy house in the garden, the police also discovered a belt, which bore Saras DNA as well as that of her father Sharif and her uncle Faisal Malik, jurors heard.
In addition, police found a plastic-coated metal pole in the outhouse, which experts matched to the shape of the bruises Sara suffered.
Prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones showed jurors images of the items found in the house, saying: You can now look again at the bruises and broken bones Sara had suffered with a clearer understanding of how some of those injuries appear to have been inflicted.
Officers also found bits of plastic bag bound up with parcel tape in an outbuilding that Mr Emlyn Jones described as home-made hoods.
They had been placed over Saras face and then taped in place, he told the court.
The hoods were stained with Saras blood and saliva and allegedly contained Sharifs fingerprints.
Police tested a number of household items as they started to see weapons everywhere when they learnt what had happened to Sara.
In a shed at the back of the house was a length of black rope which bore hairs ripped from Saras head and a number of rolls of parcel tape.
The court heard Saras 30-year-old stepmother Beinash Batool bought 12 rolls of parcel tape in July 2023, just nine days after buying six rolls from Amazon.
Jurors were told that the tape was used to construct the home-made hoods.
Discarded in bins outside the family home were towels and Saras leggings, which were soaking wet with urine, as well as a soiled nappy Sara had been forced to wear, jurors heard.
The prosecutor told jurors: Consider for a moment what it would take to keep Sara tied up, taped up or retrained, or hooded, in the way that these objects indicate.
If this was being done by one of the adults in the house – why arent the others intervening, why arent the others releasing her? Why arent the others helping her, preventing this terrible treatment?
It is one thing to fix these hoods over her head, to tape them in place – but how was her continued restraint being maintained?
Mr Emlyn Jones said Sharif removed his daughter from the school register in April 2023, saying she would be home-schooled, which meant she was not seen by anyone in the outside world prior to the murder.
The Old Bailey heard that neighbours of the familys cramped home in Surrey often heard screaming and the sound of a child crying accompanied by banging and rattling as if someone was trying to alert someone that they were trapped behind a door.
Neighbour Rebecca Spencer said she would often hear screams, crying and then deathly quiet when a distraught child fell silent.
Sara was allegedly subjected to months of abuse, the trial has heard
Mr Emlyn Jones said: On other occasions Ms Spencer would hear other bangs from the flat and which sounded like someone had been hit or smacked….Ms Spencer did consider reporting what she heard to social services but ultimately decided against it.
A new tenant Chloe Redwin similarly described hearing a child screaming followed by their Batool shouting, shut the f*** up and go to your room you f****** b******, it was said.
Ms Redwin would also frequently hear the mother refer to children as c****, jurors were told.
The prosecutor said: On occasions Ms Redwin would hear sounds of smacking; they were shockingly loud and would be followed by gut-wrenching screams of a young female child.
Over the screaming she would hear the mother shout, shut up and sometimes the sounds of further smacking would be heard followed by shouting.
None of the neighbours alerted the authorities as Sara seemed smartly dressed and there were no obvious signs of injury, it was said.
The court heard that Sharif was conscious of what was going on, because he would apologise for the noise.
Local residents observed that Sara appeared to have a number of responsibilities within the household, including taking the bins out each week and hanging up washing.
The family removed their Ring doorbell camera before they fled to Pakistan on August 9, the day after the murder, it was said.
The prosecutor said: You might want to ask yourselves why that would have been done; and what its removal might tell you about the presence of mind of whoever removed it, as the family fled to Pakistan, leaving behind them Saras dead body and an otherwise empty house which would inevitably be treated as a crime scene.
Ms Batool had blamed her husband, Urfan, for beating Sara black in a series of WhatsApp messages dating to 2019, the Old Bailey was told.
Saras stepmother Beinash Batool messaged her sister Qandeela in 2020 complaining that Sharif was always shouting and hitting his child, it was said.
In May 2021 she allegedly messaged her sister claiming: Urfan beat the c**p out of Sara. Shes covered in bruises, literally beaten black.
Batool claimed that she wanted to report Sharif saying: I feel really sorry for Sara adding poor girl cant walk and I really want to report him.
In February 2022, she allegedly told her other sister Amima that her husband was beating Sara up…cos shes being naughty.
She went on: Sara has anxiety, whatever she eats she vomits out…something happens to Sara I will not be able to forgive myself.
In the summer of 2022, Batool is said to have messaged Qandeela again saying: I cant even cover it up. He beat Sara up yesterday and I cant send her to school on Monday looking like that.
The prosecutor told jurors: It is the prosecutions case that Saras death was caused by the combined actions of all three adults in the house; for the systematic, if not daily then certainly frequent assault and abuse of that little girl could not have been done without the participation, assistance and encouragement of them all.
She could not have been kept restrained without that restraint being supervised and maintained, which takes, effectively, teamwork.
Police later charged Sharif, his wife Beinash Batool, 30, (left) and his younger brother Faisal Malik, 29, (right) who were all living in the house at the time of the murder
Sara died on August 8 last year after suffering an appalling catalogue of injuries following a brutal campaign of violence lasting weeks, jurors have heard.
Her whole body was covered in bruises, bite marks, puncture wounds and abrasions from significant and repetitive blunt force trauma, it was said.
She had been tied up, possibly to a hot pipe, scalded with hot water, and had burn marks on her buttock from an iron.
A post-mortem examination revealed she had been beaten with objects, strangled, and was left severely unwell, close to death from a series of head injuries.
In addition, Sara had 11 spinal fractures and suffered broken ribs, collar bone, shoulder blades, both of her arms, her hands and some of her fingers were fractured.
Following her death on August 8 last year, Sharif and his family spent £5,180 on flights to Pakistan leaving the next day, the court heard.
Sharif rang 999 an hour after they had landed in Pakistan on August 10, allegedly telling police: I killed my daughter.
After a month on the run the family flew back to Gatwick where police arrested Sharif, his wife and his younger brother Faisal Malik, 29, who were all living in the house at the time of the murder.
Mr Emlyn Jones said all three defendants had played a part in Saras murder.
Sharif, Batool and Malik all deny murder and causing or allowing the death of a child.
The trial continues.
