Urfan Sharif had no answer as to how his daughter and another child suffered similar domestic iron burns and human bites, despite being the “common denominator”.

Previously, Sharif had sought to blame Batool for killing his daughter, who was found dead in a bunkbed at the family home in Woking, Surrey, with a catalogue of injuries. The schoolgirl suffered dozens of serious wounds including human bite marks and iron ...

Sara Sharif’s father has accepted “full responsibility” for her death, a court has heard. Her father Urfan Sharif, 42, stepmother Beinash Batool, 30, and uncle, Faisal Malik, 29, had denied murder after Sara’s body was found with dozens of injuries at the family’s home in Woking,