Sara Sharif's dad denies daughter's body was stripped and washed in garden before fleeing

Sara Sharif's assemblage was recovered successful a bunkbed astatine her household location successful Woking, Surrey, aft allegedly being subjected to years of maltreatment astatine the hands of her begetter and household members

The begetter of Sara Sharif has denied stripping her battered assemblage and pitchy washing it successful the plot arsenic the household prepared themselves to fly to Pakistan.

Taxi operator Urfan Sharif, 42, his woman Beinash Batool, 30, and member Faisal Malik, 29, are accused of being enactment to years-long maltreatment which culminated successful her decease past August. The 10-year-old was wearing cleanable apparel erstwhile her assemblage was recovered successful a bunkbed astatine the household location successful Woking, Surrey, aft Sharif called constabulary connected accomplishment successful Islamabad, the Old Bailey has heard.

Her soiled leggings and nappy were discarded successful the plot adjacent a jetwash with packaging portion and hoods successful the bin, jurors were told. Sharif has admitted tying the miss up with the portion and hitting her with a cricket bat, metallic rod and mobile phone, adjacent whacking her successful the tummy arsenic she laic dying successful Batool’s lap.

But helium has denied biting her connected the limb and thigh, burning her with a home robust and boiling h2o and putting her caput successful a hood arsenic helium meted retired punishments for “naughty” behaviour. On Friday, authoritative William Emlyn Jones KC suggested each 3 defendants were involved, contempt Sharif’s assertion that helium took “full responsibility” for Sara’s death.

On the defendant’s actions aft her death, helium said: “You are each successful this together. A occupation you caused together, you each person to tally distant together. You were each disquieted astir yourselves, each 3 of you were reasoning astir yourselves and getting distant with it.”

On the aforesaid nighttime arsenic Sara’s death, Batool was connected the telephone to a question cause arranging flights to Pakistan for the adjacent day, the tribunal heard. Replaying the call, Mr Emlyn Jones said it was “brutal” that some she and Sharif sounded truthful “calm” arsenic Sara’s assemblage was upstairs.

Mr Emlyn Jones suggested the grounds showed she was past taken into the garden, stripped of her soiled leggings and nappy and cleaned.

He asked: “She wasn’t successful the garden? You haven’t taken her to the shed? You had a batch to bash to tidy up, the location was near immaculately tidy and the bin was afloat of packing tape, assorted hoods. And the assemblage of Sara was cleaned, wasn’t it?

“She wasn’t successful the apparel she died successful erstwhile you near the house, truthful she had been cleaned and washed? There was a jetwash retired successful the plot with her soiled apparel and the remainder of the rubbish. Those are the leggings Sara died in, entwined with a filthy nappy, bundled up with 2 towels, soaking wet.”

Sharif had told jurors helium lone cleaned Sara’s caput and did not region her clothes. Mr Emlyn Jones continued: “Somebody did get her retired of her clothes, idiosyncratic did lavation her. Did helium bash it – Faisal?”

The suspect replied: “No sir, she wasn’t washed.” The authoritative queried however Malik’s McDonald’s enactment azygous came to beryllium thrown successful the bin extracurricular on with packaging portion and hoods placed connected top.

Sharif replied: “I don’t know, sir.” Mr Emlyn Jones said: “We tin instrumentality it, Mr Sharif, that until the infinitesimal comes the 3 of you determine you are going to tally distant to Pakistan, Mr Malik needs his McDonald’s uniform. And past everything changes.”

Sharif denied thing was thrown distant connected the nighttime Sara died. Mr Emlyn Jones said: “When you near for Pakistan you had nary program to travel back. Your program was to spell distant truthful you could get distant with what you had done.”

Sharif insisted that helium did travel backmost to the UK, but the authoritative asserted that was lone due to the fact that of unit exerted connected the household successful Pakistan. Re-examining, Sharif’s lawyer Naeem Mian KC asked him astir the injuries helium did not instrumentality work for – the burns, bites and usage of a hood.

Weeping, Sharif denied doing this, but said: “I instrumentality work for everything that happened to my daughter. I americium her father, I didn’t bash what I should person done.”

Sharif, Batool and Malik, formerly of Hammond Road, Woking, Surrey, contradict execution and causing oregon allowing Sara’s death, and the proceedings continues.