Shocking CCTV footage has shown Sara Sharifâs family at Heathrow Airport just hours before the schoolgirl was found dead at home.
The 10-year-oldâs 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 youngsterâs 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, Saraâs family can be arriving at Heathrow Airport in
before passing through passport control as they boarded a flight to Pakistan.
Tragic Sara Sharifâs family were caught on CCTV passing through passport security at Heathrow Airport in London on August 9 last year
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The family were going through passport control at Heathrow Airport just hours before police found the 10-year-oldâs body, and a court was on Thursday shown the footage Â
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 driverâs seatÂ
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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 fing
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 driverâs 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.
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 familyâs flight had landed in Islamabad on August 10 last year, before Saraâs body was found.
The 42-year-old is said to have told police that âshe was ânaughtyâ, adding: âI beat her up, it wasnât my intention to kill her, but I beat her up too much.â
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 Sharifâs handwriting which read: âItâs 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.â He added: âI am running away because I am scared.â
As early as February 2020, Batool described Urfan as going on a ârampageâ after spilling hot tea, saying he was âpossessedâ, a court heard.
She described an âanger attackâ 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: âThis is how bad he is beating her ⊠I feel really sorry for her. He beat the crap out of her.â
Batool said that Sara had cut her fatherâs clothes for being mean and Sharif was âpunishing herâ by making her stay up all night doing âsit-upsâ.
She told her sister: âSheâs got a jinn in her. She reminds me of me when I was young.â
As early as February 2020, Batool described Urfan as going on a ârampageâ after spilling hot tea, saying he was âpossessedâ, a court heard.
She described an âanger attackâ 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: âThis is how bad he is beating her ⊠I feel really sorry for her. He beat the crap out of her.â
Batool said that Sara had cut her fatherâs clothes for being mean and Sharif was âpunishing herâ by making her stay up all night doing âsit-upsâ.
She told her sister: âSheâs got a jinn in her. She reminds me of me when I was young.â
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Urfan Sharif (L), Beinash Batool, and Faisal Malik deny murder and causing or allowing the death of a child
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Sara Sharif (pictured) in a handout by Surrey PoliceÂ
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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 âwent ballisticâ and âbeat Sara up like crazyâ, 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 âput her hands upâ.
In May 2021, Batool told Ms Saboohi: âNot great in our house, itâs all a bit manic. Urfan beat the crap out of Sara and my mind is all in bits. I really want to report him.
âWhy the hell doesnât Urfan learn â sheâs covered in bruises, literally beaten black.â
Afterwards, Sharif sat âon his fat bumâ and played the board game Ludo, she said.
She went on: âWhy the hell Iâm even letting him in the house. Iâm sorry for Sara, poor girl cannot walk. She literally fainted in the kitchen in the morning. He made her do sit-ups all night.â
Asked what Sara had done, Batool said: âBecause she hid the keys.â
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A court artistâs drawing of Sarah Sharifâs 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 âbrutalâ 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 âthousands of miles awayâ from the scene.
Mr Emlyn Jones said: âIn 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 âtake a deep breath and tell me whatâs happenedâ.
â999 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 âIâve killed my daughterâ.
âHe used an odd expression: âI legally punished her, and she diedâ.
âA little later, when asked for more detail, he added âshe was naughtyâ, and then âI beat her up, it wasnât my intention to kill her, but I beat her up too muchâ.â
Describing the appalling scene that police later found, the prosecutor said: âIn 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.â
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.
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