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 schoolgirl had at least 71 external injuries inflicted on her and was tortured with a hot iron in the days before she died in Hammond Road, Woking, a court previously heard.
Jurors were today shown footage of Sara’s father Urfan Sharif, 42, his wife Beinash Batool, 30, and brother, Faisal Malik, 29, leaving the country after Sara was killed.
Images show Sara’s family arriving at Heathrow Airport in London before passing through passport control as they boarded a flight to Pakistan.
Ring doorbell footage shows the family leaving Hammond Road in a BMW X5 at 9.16am on 10 August 2023.
The car is then seen arriving at Heathrow short stay car park with Urfan in the driver’s seat.
CCTV then 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.
Sara Sharif’s family passing through passport security at Heathrow Airport in London
Sara Sharif’s family going through passport control at Heathrow Airport in London
Jurors previously heard the 10-year-old 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
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.
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.’
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.
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
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.