Sara Sharif's father, step mother and uncle deny murdering 10-year-old
Sara Sharif's father, stepmother and uncle have denied murder after the ten-year-old girl was found dead under a blanket in her bunk bed at their Woking home on 10 August. Father Urfan Sharif, stepmother Beinash Batool and uncle Faisal Malik all pleaded not guilty at the Old Bailey today (14 December) after being accused of Sara's murder ahead of a trial in September 2024. A court previously heard that Sara's body was found after a tipoff that came from a call originating in Pakistan which lasted eight minutes and 34 seconds at 2.47am on 10 August. The defendants had booked flights to the country two day earlier, the court heard. READ MORE: Girl, 14, dies after falling from Canary Wharf tower block Sara was found to have "a constellation of healed and healing injuries" prosecutor Giles Bedloe told the Old Bailey. The day before Sara was discovered, the three defendants left to UK to Pakistan with five children. On their return to the UK on 13 September all t...