Sara Sharif’s dad sobs as he ‘takes full responsibility’ for daughter’s death

Sara Sharif’s father has accepted ‘full responsibility’ for her death, a court has heard.

Taxi driver Urfan Sharif, 42, is on trial for the murder of his 10-year-old daughter, who was found dead at her family home in Woking with dozens of injuries on her body.

Urfan’s wife Beinash Batool, 30, and brother Faisal Malik, 29, are also accused of killing her.

Previously, Sharif had sought to blame Batool for killing his daughter but in a dramatic admission, told jurors: ‘I accept every single thing.’

Weeping in the dock at the Old Bailey today, Mr Sharif told the cross-examimer ‘Sara died because of me.’

Following Sara’s death last August 10, the three defendants fled to Pakistan, before eventually returning home.

The schoolgirl was found with 71 injuries on her body, including human bite marks and iron burns, jurors have heard.

Cross-examining for Batool, Caroline Carberry KC had asked Sharif about a note he left beside the body of his daughter before leaving for Pakistan.

In it he wrote ‘love you Sara’ on the first page followed by the words: ‘Whoever see this note it’s me Urfan Sharif who killed my daughter by beating.’

Ms Carberry asked if he did indeed kill his daughter by beating and Sharif replied: ‘Yes, she died because of me.’

The barrister said: ‘In the weeks before she died she suffered multiple fractures to her body, didn’t she, and it was you who inflicted those injuries?’

The defendant replied: ‘Yes.’

Sharif accepted causing the injuries, bar burn and bite marks, and added: ‘I take responsibility. I take full responsibility.’

He admitted causing fractures to Sara by hitting her with a cricket bat or pole.

Asked if he broke Sara’s hyoid neck bone, he repeated: ‘I can take full responsibility. I accept every single thing.’