Shocking CCTV footage has shown Sara Sharif’s family at Heathrow Airport just hours before the schoolgirl was found dead at home.
The 10-year-old’s body was discovered with at least 71 external injuries after she was allegedly tortured with a hot iron in the days leading up to her death.
It was police who found young Sara dead at the property in Hammond Road, Woking, a court previously heard.
Jurors were on Thursday shown footage of the youngster’s father Urfan Sharif, 42, his wife Beinash Batool, 30, and brother, Faisal Malik, 29, leaving the country after Sara was killed.
In the snaps, dated August 9, 20203, Sara’s family can be arriving at Heathrow Airport in London before passing through passport control as they boarded a flight to Pakistan.
Tragic Sara Sharif’s family were caught on CCTV passing through passport security at Heathrow Airport in London on August 9 last year
The family were going through passport control at Heathrow Airport just hours before police found the 10-year-old’s body, and a court was on Thursday shown the footage
Jurors previously heard the schoolgirl had suffered more than 70 injuries, shortly before she was found dead in her home in Woking, Surrey
CCTV footage captured a car arriving at Heathrow short stay car park with Urfan in the driver’s seat
Sara Sharif (pictured) was found to have ten spinal fractures and further fractures to her right collar bone, both shoulder blades, both arms, both hands, three separate fingers, bones near the wrist in each hand, two ribs and her hyoid bone in the neck
Ring doorbell footage snapped the family leaving Hammond Road in a BMW X5 at 9.16am.
The car is then seen arriving at Heathrow Airport short stay car park with Urfan in the driver’s seat.
CCTV shows Urfan, Batool and Malik going through security and passport control at the airport before boarding their flight to Pakistan around 1.22pm. The flight departed at 2pm.
Sharif, Batool and Malik, all deny murder and causing or allowing the death of a child.
They were arrested more than a month later on September 13 last year at Gatwick Airport having flown back from Dubai via Pakistan.
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Jurors previously heard how Urfan admitted to killing his daughter at their Surrey home and made the confession in an eight-minute call an hour after his family’s flight had landed in Islamabad on August 10 last year, before Sara’s body was found.
The 42-year-old is said to have told police that ‘she was ‘naughty’, adding: ‘I beat her up, it wasn’t my intention to kill her, but I beat her up too much.’
Police raced to the family home in Surrey where they found the schoolgirl dead lying under the covers in her bunk bed.
Beside her battered body was a note allegedly in Sharif’s handwriting which read: ‘It’s me Urfan Sharif who killed my daughter by beating. I swear to God that my intention was not to kill her. But I lost it.’ He added: ‘I am running away because I am scared.’
As early as February 2020, Batool described Urfan as going on a ‘rampage’ after spilling hot tea, saying he was ‘possessed’, a court heard.
She described an ‘anger attack’ after a visit to a play centre and incidents in which Sharif broke photo frames and curtains.
Commenting on 10 photographs of Sara, she wrote: ‘This is how bad he is beating her … I feel really sorry for her. He beat the crap out of her.’
Batool said that Sara had cut her father’s clothes for being mean and Sharif was ‘punishing her’ by making her stay up all night doing ‘sit-ups’.
She told her sister: ‘She’s got a jinn in her. She reminds me of me when I was young.’
Urfan Sharif (L), Beinash Batool, and Faisal Malik deny murder and causing or allowing the death of a child
Sara Sharif (pictured) in a handout by Surrey Police
The rooms inside the family house on Hammond Road in Woking, Surrey, where the body of 10-year-old Sara Sharif was found
On another occasion, Batool said Sharif ‘went ballistic’ and ‘beat Sara up like crazy’, expressing fears that he would break her arm or leg.
After Batool had gone to bed, she said Sharif was in the other room making Sara ‘put her hands up’.
In May 2021, Batool told Ms Saboohi: ‘Not great in our house, it’s all a bit manic. Urfan beat the crap out of Sara and my mind is all in bits. I really want to report him.
‘Why the hell doesn’t Urfan learn – she’s covered in bruises, literally beaten black.’
Afterwards, Sharif sat ‘on his fat bum’ and played the board game Ludo, she said.
She went on: ‘Why the hell I’m even letting him in the house. I’m sorry for Sara, poor girl cannot walk. She literally fainted in the kitchen in the morning. He made her do sit-ups all night.’
Asked what Sara had done, Batool said: ‘Because she hid the keys.’
A court artist’s drawing of Sarah Sharif’s father Urfan Sharif (right) her uncle Faisal Malik (left), and stepmother Beinash Batool (centre), sitting alongside dock officers at the Old Bailey in London
Prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones, KC, previously told jurors that Sharif and his family fled on August 9 last year leaving the body of his daughter behind following a ‘brutal’ campaign of violence lasting weeks.
Two days after the murder, Sharif is said to have dialled 999 at 2.47am on August 10 when he was already ‘thousands of miles away’ from the scene.
Mr Emlyn Jones said: ‘In that call, Urfan Sharif began by asking the operator to take down his address. It sounds like he is crying. The operator interrupted and said ”take a deep breath and tell me what’s happened”.
‘999 operators are used to hearing all kinds of dreadful things, but this one cannot have expected the answer he got to that question. Urfan Sharif told him ”I’ve killed my daughter”.
‘He used an odd expression: ”I legally punished her, and she died”.
‘A little later, when asked for more detail, he added ”she was naughty”, and then ”I beat her up, it wasn’t my intention to kill her, but I beat her up too much”.’
Describing the appalling scene that police later found, the prosecutor said: ‘In an upstairs bedroom, on a bottom bunk bed, the police found the body of a little girl, lying in bed, under the cover, as if asleep. But she was not asleep. She was dead.’
Sara was found to have ten spinal fractures and further fractures to her right collar bone, both shoulder blades, both arms, both hands, three separate fingers, bones near the wrist in each hand, two ribs and her hyoid bone in the neck.
The trial continues.
