The daddy of a 10-year-old British-Pakistani woman on Wednesday admitted that he killed his daughter however maintained he had not meant to hurt her, at the same time as he beat her when she lay dying.
Sara Sharif was discovered useless in her mattress in Woking, southwest of London, on August 10, 2023, with intensive accidents together with damaged bones, burns and chunk marks.
Her father, Urfan Sharif, 42, had fled to Pakistan a day earlier than her physique was discovered, together with his spouse Beinash Batool, 30, and the woman’s uncle, Faisal Malik, 29.
All three adults deny homicide and a separate cost of permitting the demise of a kid.
Giving proof on the Outdated Bailey court docket in central London, Urfan Sharif had beforehand blamed Batool, Sara’s stepmother, and stated she had pressured him to admit to killing her.
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However below questioning from his spouse’s lawyer on Wednesday the taxi driver stated he took “full duty” for what had occurred, however that he had not supposed to harm Sara.
Requested if he killed Sara by beating, he replied: “Sure, she died due to me.”
He additionally admitted inflicting a number of fractures within the weeks earlier than Sara’s demise, utilizing a cricket bat on her as she was certain with packaging tape, throttling her together with his naked arms and breaking the hyoid bone in her neck.
“I can take full duty. I settle for each single factor,” he stated, additionally accepting that he badly beat Sara on August 8 when she had collapsed and was dying.
He maintained nonetheless that he was not responsible of the homicide cost. “I didn’t wish to damage her. I did not wish to hurt her,” he instructed the jury.
Sara’s physique was found in her mattress on August 10. Her father phoned British police after arriving in Islamabad and stated he had crushed his daughter “an excessive amount of”.
A written confession was discovered beside her. A autopsy examination discovered she had suffered a number of accidents, together with at the very least 25 damaged bones.
She additionally had burns and human chunk marks on her physique however Urfan Sharif denied making them.
The defendants had been arrested on September 13 once they flew again to the UK.
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