The body of a 10-year-old British-Pakistani girl whose death sparked an international manhunt was found with burn marks believed to have been made by an iron, a prosecutor told a London court on Monday.
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Sara Sharif was found dead in bed at her family home in Woking, southern England, on August 10, 2023.
The discovery triggered a manhunt in which Interpol and Britain’s foreign ministry coordinated with authorities in Pakistan.
The day before Sara’s body was found, her father, 42-year-old taxi driver Urfan Sharif, step-mother Beinash Batool, 30, and uncle Faisal Malik, 29, left the UK for Pakistan with Sharif’s five other children.
All three adults are on trial for her murder.
Whoever see this note 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
A post-mortem examination found “signs of traumatic head injury”, apparent scald burns on the inside of her ankles and bite marks – five to her left lower arm and one to her inner thigh – that were “probably human”.