CCTV footage has shown Sara Sharif's family at Heathrow Airport before the schoolgirl was found dead at home by police.

The 10-year-old's body was discovered with at least 71 external injuries after she was tortured with a hot iron in the days leading up to her death.

Police found young Sara dead at home in Hammond Road, Woking.

Jurors were today shown footage of the youngster's father taxi-driver Urfan Sharif, 42, his wife Beinash Batool, 30 (Sara's stepmother), and brother, McDonald's worker Faisal Malik, 29, leaving the country after Sara was killed.

In the snaps, dated August 9, 20203, Sara's family can be seen arriving at Heathrow Airport in London before passing through passport control as they boarded a flight to Pakistan.

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.

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 was strangled until her hyoid bone in the neck broke.

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.

Urfan admitted to killing his daughter at their Surrey home, making the confession in an eight-minute call to police on August 10 last year.

The 42-year-old 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 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.'

As early as February 2020, Batool described Urfan as going on a 'rampage' after spilling hot tea, saying he was 'possessed'.

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, 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 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.

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Sara Sharif's father left a chilling note on a pillow next to his 10-year-old daughter's body in which he confessed to killing her 'by beating', the court heard.

Urfan Sharif went on the run to Pakistan after battering his daughter Sara to death, prosecutors told jurors.

Urfan Sharif made a 999 call from hiding confessing that 'I've killed my daughter', Sara, adding, 'I legally punished her, and she died'

Prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones, KC, 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 dialled 999 at 2.47am on August 10 when he was already 'thousands of miles away' from the scene.

Mr Emlyn Jones went on: 'When Urfan Sharif said, in that call, ''I beat her up'', he came nowhere near to describing the extent of the violence and physical abuse Sara had suffered; not just at the time of her death, but repeatedly, over time; she had been the victim of assault and physical abuse for weeks and weeks, at least.

'The doctors found dozens of separate injuries, externally and internally, when they examined Sara's body.

'She had suffered extensive bruising; burns; broken bones, old and new.

'So no, Sara had not just been beaten up. Her treatment, certainly in the last few weeks of her life, had been appalling; it had been brutal.'

Police later charged Sharif, his wife Beinash Batool, 30, (left) and his younger brother Faisal Malik, 29, (right) who were all living in the house at the time of the murder

Police later charged Sharif, his wife Beinash Batool, 30, and his younger brother Faisal Malik, 29, who were all living in the house at the time of the murder.

The prosecutor told jurors that Sharif now claims that his 'apparent confessions were false' and that he was only saying those things to protect others.

Batool's case is that 'her husband was a violent disciplinarian, who regularly assaulted Sara', but she was scared of her husband, jurors were told.

Their home at Hammond Road

A neighbour considered calling police after she heard a girl scream 'in pain' two days before Sara Sharif died, the court heard.

A dental expert found 'probable human bites' to Sara's left forearm and inner left leg, with Sharif and Malik excluded as the possible biters.

In addition, there was a burn on Sara's buttock likely inflicted intentionally with a 'domestic iron', scalding to both feet, and signs of restraint with bindings, the court heard.

Neighbour Fiona Mellon spoke to officers carrying out house to house inquiries and described hearing a child's scream a few days before the killing.

Teaching assistant Hayley Holden, who had helped Sara with her spelling, described seeing bruising on her face which led to a referral from the school.

Ms Holden saw what looked like bruising on Sara's face which looked like 'someone had tried to cover it up'.

When the headmistress asked Sara about it, she immediately 'shrank back', pulled her hijab down and would not talk about it, Ms Holden said.

The girl's reaction convinced Ms Holden something was 'wrong' and the school made the appropriate referral, jurors heard.

On another occasion, Sara came into class and 'put her arms on the desk and put her head in her arms', Ms Holden said.

When asked what was wrong, she turned her head away and would not speak.

Police released this photo of Sara Sherif

A neighbour told the court how Sara's stepmother would regularly shout verbal abuse at their children before Sara's death

Chloe Redwin moved into a neighbour's flat in November 2020 and said problems started from the 'first night' when she heard 'a child screaming'.

Often she heard a female woman screaming - meaning stepmother Beinash Batool.

Beinash Batool, 30, (pictured) swore at her stepdaughter Sara

Ms Spencer's experience was so bad she claims that when a friend on the street, Chloe Redwin, suggested moving in, she warned her about the family

Neighbour Ms Spencer sometimes heard a 'thwack' and 'doors rattling' as if someone had been 'locked in a bedroom' and was trying to get out.

Ms Spencer told the Old Bailey that 'very often' she heard 'the step mother screaming at the children'.

She described how she could hear Sara singled out for abuse.

'I would hear the stepmother shout at Sara because she screamed her name,' she told prosecutor William Jones KC.

'I would hear the step mum screaming at the children and then it going silent.'

She added: 'It often seemed like they were being locked in a bedroom that kind of constant rattling of a door trying to get it open.

'That was often. Normally after the stepmother had screamed at them. The children screamed but as if having a tantrum… Then it would go quiet.'

Ms Spencer apologised to the court as she described the sort of words she heard Batool scream. 'She said f***ing. F***ing bastards,' she explained.

'Just effing get…. Just not very nice, Not words you would expect to be spoken to children.'

Remembering one particularly bad incident, she said: 'It was fever pitch.' Ms Spencer went down and asked 'Is everything ok in here?'

'They said, ''Yes, yes'', and the door was shut in my face. That was the stepmother.

'It had gone on for a long time and I was coming to the end of my tether a bit. The constant screaming and crying and banging.'

Court artist sketch of Sara Sharif's stepmother Beinash Batool from Bronzefield women's prison in Surrey

A radiologist who examined the body of murdered schoolgirl Sara Sharif has claimed that her injuries were comparable to being 'kicked by a horse'.

The 10-year-old girl sustained at least 25 different bone fractures and 71 external injuries inflicted on her as she was tortured in the days before she died, the court heard.

Professor Owen Arthurs, consultant paediatric radiologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital discussed the 10 spinal fracture he had discovered on the child saying 'Spinal fractures (in children) are very rare, even in specialist trauma centres and they are usually caused by high impact, high trauma incidents, such as road traffic accidents, falls from height or being kicked by a horse.'

The fractures to both scapula, or shoulder blades, had been caused by 'blunt force trauma.'

A post-mortem revealed Sara had suffered 'multiple and extensive injuries' over a 'sustained and extended' period of time.

She 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.

Sara also had severe burn marks inflicted by an iron and six bite marks.

'My opinion for the most likely explanation for the constellation of the injuries are multiple episodes of blunt force trauma inflicted over several weeks.'

Professor Arthurs spoke of the rarity of some of the fractures that Sara suffered, particularly the breaks in both shoulder blades and the hyoid bone.

He said: 'Scapular fractures are very rare in children, there are big muscles in place and it also moves, it is quite difficult to fracture your scapular in a sporting injury or anything like that.

'These are almost certainly caused by direct blunt force trauma to the body.

'I can't think of an accidental way whereby you would fracture both scapulars at the same time.

'I haven't ever seen a hyoid fracture in a child even in those when we have a history of ligature strangulation,' he said.

'Presence of a hyoid fracture suggests severe neck compression.

'The most likely cause here is manual strangulation.'

Professor Anthony Freemont, an osteoarticular pathologist, has told the court that Sara's hyoid bone fracture happened three months before she died and the fractures in her left hand was caused around two weeks before her death.

Professor Arthurs confirmed a wide range of timelines regarding Sara's fractures, including a fracture in her trapezium bone in the right hand that was less than ten days old.

He told the jury that the fractures to her shoulder blades were up to six weeks old.

One of her vertebrae had started to heal after a fracture but was the broken again.

Sara's ten spinal fractures were less than four weeks old, he said.

A pathologist, bone specialist Professor Anthony Freemont, told the court he had concluded the break in her neck had been caused 'within the setting of neck compression' - saying that 'the most common cause of these types of fractures is manual strangulation'.

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