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 lifeless in her mattress in Woking, southwest of London, on August 10, 2023, with intensive accidents together with damaged bones, burns and chew 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 loss of life of a kid.
Giving proof on the Outdated Bailey court docket in central London, Urfan Sharif had beforehand blamed Batool, Sara’s stepmother, and mentioned she had pressured him to admit to killing her.
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However underneath questioning from his spouse’s lawyer on Wednesday the taxi driver mentioned he took “full duty” for what had occurred, however that he had not meant 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 loss of life, utilizing a cricket bat on her as she was certain with packaging tape, throttling her together with his naked fingers and breaking the hyoid bone in her neck.
“I can take full duty. I settle for each single factor,” he mentioned, additionally accepting that he badly beat Sara on August 8 when she had collapsed and was dying.
He maintained nevertheless that he was not responsible of the homicide cost. “I didn’t wish to harm her. I did not wish to hurt her,” he advised the jury.
Sara’s physique was found in her mattress on August 10. Her father phoned British police after arriving in Islamabad and mentioned 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 not less than 25 damaged bones.
She additionally had burns and human chew marks on her physique however Urfan Sharif denied making them.
The defendants have been arrested on September 13 after they flew again to the UK.
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