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Dad who says helium takes "full responsibility" for daughter's decease accussed of telling "pack of lies" to Old Bailey jury.
15:51, Thu, Nov 14, 2024 | UPDATED: 15:56, Thu, Nov 14, 2024
Found dormant astatine location - Sara Sharif (Image: Surrey Police)
The begetter of beaten-to-death Sara Sharif admitted helium has “no credibility” aft spending six days successful the witnesser container telling jurors his woman was to blasted for sidesplitting his 10-year-old daughter, a tribunal was told.
The tragic schoolgirl was recovered dormant astatine her Woking location with 71 outer injuries including quality wound marks and robust burns aft her household fled to Pakistan.
On Wednesday, dada Urfan Sharif, 42, told the Old Bailey that helium took “full responsibility” for his daughter’s decease but denied murder, claiming helium “did not mean to harm her” erstwhile helium bound and bushed her with a cricket bat.
The cabbie had sought to blasted Sara’s stepmum Beinash Batool for carrying retired attacks whilst helium was astatine enactment but connected the seventh time of grounds revealed: “She died due to the fact that of me.”
Urfan Sharif and woman Beinash Batool (Image: Surrey Police)
But helium denies execution and causing oregon allowing the decease of a kid alongside his woman Batool, 30, and Sara's uncle, 29-year-old McDonald's idiosyncratic Faisal Malik.
Yesterday nether cross-examination, Malik's barrister Michael Ivers KC accused him of telling a battalion of lies and asked: “What does the connection credibility mean?”
Sharif replied: “If you're telling the information and if radical volition judge what you're saying.
Mr Ivers past asked: “Do you deliberation you person a credibility problem?” to which Sharif replied “Yes”, adding: “Because I didn't archer the truth.
The barrister asked the suspect if his oath taken connected the beatified publication had meant thing and questioned if his tears had been portion of an act.
Sharif replied: “The symptom is real.”
He admitted helium had nary reply arsenic to however his girl and different kid suffered akin home robust burns and quality bites, contempt being the “common denominator”.
Pictures showing wrong the Sharif household location (Image: Surrey Police)
McDonald's idiosyncratic Faisal Malik (Image: Surrey Police)
Mr Ivers said: “What are the chances that 2 children you are connected with ended up with burns from a home robust and wound marks?”
Sharif insisted: “It wasn’t me. I did not bite,” aboriginal adding: “There are definite things I can’t explain. I’ve got nary words.”
The barrister suggested it was nary coincidence either that Sharif’s assorted erstwhile Polish partners – including Sara’s parent Olga - had alleged helium would fastener them up and instrumentality distant their passports.
He said: “What are the chances that you could beryllium truthful unlucky each these Polish women accidental the aforesaid happening astir you?"
The proceedings continues.
Sara Sharif earlier her decease (Image: Surrey Police)
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