Sara Sharif had a plastic bag taped around her head as a ‘home-made hood’ and was beaten with a cricket bat, a court heard today.
The 10-year-old’s father Urfan Sharif is accused of battering his daughter to death before fleeing to Pakistan last August after subjecting the schoolgirl to weeks of brutal abuse.
Months before the murder, neighbours noted that Sara had started to wear a hijab in January 2023, which Prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones, KC, said was a bid to conceal the appalling injuries she was receiving at home.
