Sara Sharif’s father felt ‘world crushed’ as he held her lifeless body

Sara Sharif’s begetter has tearfully told a tribunal helium felt his “world crushed” arsenic helium held her lifeless assemblage successful his arms.

Taxi operator Urfan Sharif, 42, told jurors helium recovered the 10-year-old collapsed aft his woman Beinash Batool called him location from enactment connected the evening of August 8 past year.

Asked to picture his affectional authorities arsenic helium hugged and kissed his daughter, Sharif told jurors: “I was numb. My satellite crushed, the full satellite has fallen connected me.”

Sharif is connected proceedings astatine the Old Bailey accused of Sara’s murder, on with her stepmother Batool, 30, and uncle Faisal Malik, 29.

I was numb, similar I americium now. I was shocked

Urfan Sharif

Giving grounds connected Friday, Sharif said Sara was “limp” connected Batool’s thigh successful a chamber by the clip helium returned to the household location successful Woking, Surrey.

His woman had claimed Sara was being “dramatic” and “pretending” not to get up aft she fell connected the stairs portion being “silly” with different child, the tribunal was told.

Sharif said: “I lifted her near limb but she wouldn’t get up. Her limb was limp. I dropped it and it conscionable went down.

“I tapped her face, asked Sara to get up, but she didn’t get up truthful I took Sara from Batool’s thigh and tapped her again.

“She opened her eyes, said she is thirsty, needs water, and she’s feeling sleepy.

“I shouted for water. She (Batool) gave maine the h2o but she (Sara) didn’t drink. She did not aftermath up, she was sleeping.”

Sharif went on: “I shouted for (an) ambulance due to the fact that I could not perceive breathing. I checked the pulse and determination was none.

“I started giving her CPR. I was numb, similar I americium now. I was shocked.”

He carried connected thorax compressions arsenic Batool stood by and shouted astatine him successful Urdu: “Wake her up, aftermath her up, she cannot die,” jurors were told.

After astir 10 minutes, helium stopped and Batool hugged him and said: “Leave her, Sara is dead,” the tribunal heard.

Sharif said helium asked Batool wherever the ambulance was, but she told him: “There’s nary point. There is nary request due to the fact that she’s dead.”

He told jurors helium did not telephone exigency services himself due to the fact that Batool “snatched” the telephone from him and told him helium should support the family.

“I wasn’t myself. I was each implicit the place. When I near astir an hr agone I hugged her, kissed her, I didn’t cognize what happened.

“I picked her up. I conscionable hugged her and was kissing her. I could not judge that she was gone. I was not accepting. I’m inactive not accepting that my girl is gone.

“I was conscionable hugging her, that’s it. I was conscionable asking her, ‘wake up, conscionable once’.

“I was successful shock, numb similar I’m sitting here. I could not recognize what had happened.”

Sharif closed Sara’s eyes with his hands, Batool “shed a fewer tears” and past Malik came upstairs and “burst into tears” aft failing to find a pulse, the tribunal heard.

The suspect claimed the archetypal program was for Batool to spell to her relatives successful Luton truthful helium could telephone constabulary and accidental Sara died successful his care.

Batool made 30 calls to members of her household but they did not assistance due to the fact that they were “scared”, he said.

Sharif said helium carried Sara into the bath to cleanable her assemblage but was physically stopped by Batool who told him: “Are you stupid, conscionable permission her.”

The suspect said helium was “shocked” to spot a reddish people connected Sara earlier Batool explained the different kid had beaten and stamped connected her.

Sharif said helium wrote a missive confessing to sidesplitting her girl and near it beside Sara’s assemblage truthful helium could “take the blame”.

But it was Batool who instructed him to accidental successful the enactment that helium had “lost it”, helium said.

Later that night, flights were booked for the household to question to Pakistan the adjacent day.

Sharif said it was “selfish and inhuman” to permission his girl unsocial “like an orphan”.

Jurors person heard however constabulary recovered Sara’s assemblage aft Sharif called from Islamabad connected August 10.

A post-mortem introspection recovered she suffered dozens of injuries, including burns from an iron, quality wound marks and signs of restraint.

The defendants were detained connected their instrumentality to the UK connected September 13 past year.

Batool sobbed successful the dock passim Sharif’s grounds connected Friday and Malik wiped his eyes and bowed his head.

The defendants, formerly of Hammond Road, Woking, contradict execution and causing oregon allowing the decease of a kid betwixt December 16 2022 and August 9 2023.