Sara Sharif neighbours to give evidence after ‘gut-wrenching scream’ hears – latest

Sara Sharif neighbours to give evidence after ‘gut-wrenching scream’ hears - latest
Sara Sharif suffered a ‘constellation’ of injuries (Surrey Police/PA)
Sara Sharif suffered a ‘constellation’ of injuries (Surrey Police/PA) (PA Media)

The trial of three family members accused of murdering schoolgirl Sara Sharif has resumed on Wednesday, with neighbours who allegedly heard the 10-year-old “screaming” giving evidence.

Jurors have been told of a “campaign of abuse” against Sara, which left her with over 70 injuries and 25 different fractures, include a broken bone in her neck.

She was discovered dead in a bunkbed at the family home in Woking, after her father Urfan Sharif contacted Surrey Police from Pakistan on 10 August last year to say he had “beat her up too much”

Previously, the prosecution told the Old Bailey that she had had suffered “probable human bite marks”, a burn from a domestic iron and scalding from hot water.

Traces of the schoolgirl’s blood were discovered on the kitchen floor, a vacuum cleaner and a cricket bat following a police search of the family home along with “homemade hoods” used to restrain her, the jury heard.

Sharif, 42, her stepmother Beinash Batool, 30, and her uncle Faisal Malik, 29, have all denied her murder and causing or allowing the death of a child between 16 December 2022 and 9 August 2023.

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Sara was allegedly ‘shouted’ at and would carry out chores

A neighbour has told the Old Bailey that she witnessed Beinash Batool shouting at Sara while she lived below them.

“I would hear the stepmother shout at Sara,” Rebecca Spencer said.

When asked by the prosecutor how she could tell it was Sara, she responded: “She shouted her name.”

She added that she had also seen the 10-year-old, then aged about six, carry out chores such as taking items down to the bin.

During this period, Urfan Sharif worked as a taxi driver while Batool remained home.

Neighbours had heard shouting and screaming from the property (Surrey Police/PA)
Neighbours had heard shouting and screaming from the property (Surrey Police/PA) (PA Media)
Holly Evans23 October 2024 11:18

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Neighbour heard doors ‘rattling’ as if someone was ‘locked in a bedroom’

A neighbour who lived above the Sharif family in 2018 and 2019 at a maisonette in West Byfleet has told jurors that she had heard Beinash Batool “screaming” and a door “rattling”.

Appearing behind a screen, Rebecca Spencer said her first impression of the noise the family created was “just crying and then rattling of doors and a lot of door slamming, also the stepmother screaming.”

She described frequently hearing the sound of a door rattling at all hours, often after Batool had “lost her temper”.

“The family were never quiet when it came to closing doors but it almost seemed like they’d been locked in a bedroom, that constant rattling of a door. Trying to get it open,” she said.

Holly Evans23 October 2024 11:07

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Trial resumes

The trial of Urfan Sharif, Beinash Batool and Faisal Malik has resumed at the Old Bailey.

Jurors are due to hear from Rebecca Spencer, a neighbour who lived next to the family in West Byfleet.

Holly Evans23 October 2024 10:37

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Swearing and gut-wrenching screams allegedly heard from family home

Last week, jurors heard that that neighbours had heard “shockingly loud” sounds of smacking that were followed by “gut-wrenching screams” coming from the Sharif family home, the court heard.

Prosecutor William Emlyn Jones KC said Chloe Redwin, who moved into the neighbouring property on Eden Grove in September 2020, said she heard screams followed by a woman shouting “shut the f*** up” and “go to your room you f****** b******”.

Ms Redwin said she heard shouting and screaming at “any time of the day or night”, but that she noticed it did not occur when the “father of the household” was at home, he continued.

She said she “often” said hello to Sara’s father, Urfan Sharif, and that she thought he was “conscious of the noise his family made, because on occasions he would apologise for it”.

Neighbours heard shouting and screaming coming from the family home in Woking
Neighbours heard shouting and screaming coming from the family home in Woking (Surrey Police)
Holly Evans23 October 2024 10:01

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Neighbour had heard ‘banging’ and screaming as far back as 2018

Jurors heard that other neighbours from when the Sharif family lived in West Byfleet, where they moved at some point between 2018 and 2019, and later in Woking, where they lived from April 2023, had heard screams, smacking and crying coming from their home.

The court was told that neighbour Rebecca Spencer would hear: “banging and rattling sounds”, that: “would often be accompanied by the sounds of a child crying or a screaming, followed by complete silence.”

She added in a statement read by prosecutors last week that: “On those occasions I can only describe the silence as deathly quiet and I cannot even imagine what had happened to make the crying or screaming child become immediately so silent.”

Ms Spencer also described bangs from inside the Sharif’s flat like someone had been hit or smacked, the court was told.

She said she considered reporting it to social services but ultimately decided against it.

Holly Evans23 October 2024 09:27

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The key dates in Sara Sharif’s tragic death after alleged ‘campaign of abuse’

Ten-year-old Sara Sharif died after an alleged “campaign of abuse” in the home she shared with her father, stepmother and uncle.

Taxi driver Urfan Sharif, 42, is on trial at the Old Bailey accused of his daughter’s murder alongside Sara’s stepmother, Beinash Batool, 30, and uncle, Faisal Malik, 29.

Read the full article here:

Holly Evans23 October 2024 09:00

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Stepmother of Sara Sharif requests ‘earliest possible’ flights after child’s death

Stepmother of Sara Sharif requests ‘earliest possible’ flights after child’s death
Holly Evans23 October 2024 08:00

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Sara had suffered dozens of bruises, grazes and burns

Giving evidence on Wednesday, forensic pathologist Dr Nathaniel Cary said some of Sara’s external injuries, which included dozens of bruises, grazes and burns, were the result of “repetitive blunt trauma” and “blunt impact or solid pressure, or both.”

He told the court there were more than 71 injuries to the little girl’s body.

They included significant damage internally, including bleeding on her brain, multiple bruises on her lungs and multiple skeletal injuries, jurors heard.

Dr Cary presented his findings from a post-mortem examination of Sara’s body he carried out on August 15 2023 which took around three hours.

Sara had a height of 1.37 metres and a weight of 27 kilograms, with both measurements within the average bracket for a child her age but towards the lower end, the court heard.

Holly Evans23 October 2024 07:00

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Police bodycam footage from night Sara Sharif’s body was discovered

Police bodycam footage from night Sara Sharif’s body was discovered
Holly Evans23 October 2024 06:00

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Pictured: Sara Sharif before her death

Sara Sharif was found dead in her home in August 2023 (Surrey Police/PA)
Sara Sharif was found dead in her home in August 2023 (Surrey Police/PA) (PA Media)
The court previously heard that Sara’s teacher described her as a ‘happy child’ (Surrey Police/PA)
The court previously heard that Sara’s teacher described her as a ‘happy child’ (Surrey Police/PA) (PA Media)
Holly Evans23 October 2024 05:00

Source: independent.co.uk