Father takes responsibility for death of 10-year-old daughter

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Father takes responsibility for ****** of 10-year-old daughter

Sara Sharif’s father has accepted “full responsibility” for her ******, a court has heard.

Her father Urfan Sharif, 42, stepmother Beinash Batool, 30, and uncle, Faisal Malik, 29, had denied ******* after Sara’s body was found with dozens of injuries at the family’s home in Woking, Surrey, last year.

Under cross-examination at the Old Bailey, Mr Sharif said: “She ***** because of me.”

The court previously heard that Sara was

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during more than two years of ******.

Jurors were previously told Mr Sharif’s case was that Ms Batool was responsible for Sara’s ******, and he made a false confession in a phone call and also in a note to protect his wife.

But on Wednesday, as the court day was getting under way, Mr Sharif unexpectedly said: “I admit what I said in my phone call and my written note. Every single word.”

In response to questioning from Ms Batool’s barrister Caroline Carberry KC, Mr Sharif suddenly said: “I want to say something”.

“It was you who inflected those injuries on her, wasn’t it?”, Carberry KC asked.

“Yes”, he said.

“On the night of 6 August, you badly beat Sara?”, Carberry KC added.

“Yes,” he said.

Mr Sharif also told the court that he caused fractures to Sara and used a cricket bat and a metal pole.

At this stage, Ms Batool, who had been sobbing loudly, left the court and the hearing was suspended.

A post-mortem examination found Sara had suffered dozens of injuries including “probable human ***** marks”, an iron ***** and scalding from hot water before she ***** on 8 August 2023.

Prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones KC previously said a bloodstained cricket bat, a rolling pin with Sara’s DNA on it, a metal pole, a belt and rope were found near the family’s outhouse.

Mr Sharif, Ms Batool and Urfan’s brother Mr Malik all previously denied charges of ******* and causing or allowing the ****** of a child.

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