Sara Sharif’s father and stepmother are facing life in prison after being found guilty of murdering the 10-year-old girl at the culmination of a horrifying campaign of domestic abuse.Urfan Sharif, 42, oversaw a “culture of violent discipline” within the family, and confessed during his trial to attacks on Sara with a metal pole and a cricket bat.When the little girl was found dead by police, tucked into an upstairs bunkbed, there were signs on her body of human bite marks, iron burns, and a litany of broken bones.The Old Bailey heard Sara had at times been tied up with tape and a hood was placed over her head, during prolonged periods of so-called ‘punishment’ which amounted to torture.
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00:00Please, could you introduce yourself? What's your name?
00:02So, my name is Beenish Bhattal.
00:03And you are about to be interviewed for the offence of murder.
00:07What's your understanding of murder?
00:09What's your understanding of that offence?
00:11Killing someone.
00:13Yeah. Okay, so it's intentionally killing somebody.
00:16Okay, in very simple terms, okay?
00:18That's the offence for which you've been arrested for
00:20and that's the offence for which we're going to speak to you about.
00:22Alright?
00:24What happened to Sarah?
00:26No comment.
00:28What did you see?
00:29No comment.
00:31Whose choice was it how you left Sarah?
00:35No comment.
00:39You know, Dawn's just said, as you said in the video,
00:43you want to come back to the UK, clear your name in the UK courts.
00:46Well, here we are. This is the start of the process.
00:49So, why would you not speak to us now?
00:51No comment.
00:52Who did that to Sarah?
00:53No comment.
00:54Do you love Sarah?
00:56No comment.
00:57Did you care about her at all?
00:58No comment.
01:01That's the end of the interview.
01:04Okay, what is your full name?
01:06Professor Shehzad Malik.
01:082.47 on Thursday the 10th of August,
01:11Surrey Police received a 999 call
01:14from Irfan Sharif calling from Pakistan.
01:18Asking for the operator to write down his address which he gave.
01:28In this call he stated he killed his daughter
01:31and provided her full details.
01:33Irfan provided the details of 6 Hammond Road in Hawzul
01:37where Sarah's body could be found.
01:43In this call he stated he killed his daughter
01:46and provided her full details.
01:58In this call he stated he killed his daughter
02:01and provided her full details.
02:08Police attended the address and discovered the body
02:11of 10 year old Sarah Sharif.
02:20We're here because we're trying to find out how Sarah died.
02:31Who is responsible for her death?
02:38No comments.
02:40In my view this little girl was tortured.
02:43In my view this little girl was tortured.
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