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Sara Sharif's stepmother would not call 999, jury told
Beinash Batool searched on Google the difference between murder and manslaughter, a court hears.

Urfan Sharif said he came home on the evening of 8 August last year to find Beinash Batool sitting on the floor in the couple's bedroom, holding Sara.
Police found Sara’s body with dozens of injuries at the family’s home in Woking, Surrey, two days later.
Mr Sharif, 42, Ms Batool, 30, and Sara's uncle, Faisal Malik, 29, have denied murder at the Old Bailey.
Sara's father said Ms Batool told him the girl had fallen down the stairs while playing with another child, and that now she was “pretending” and “being dramatic".
Mr Sharif said he told Sara to “get up” and took her arm, but it was limp.
“Then I took Sara from Beinash’s lap," he said.
"[Sara] whispered and opened her mouth a bit. She said she is thirsty and she needs water.”
Mr Sharif told the jury that he called for water and put Sara on the bed, but his wife told him to put her on the floor.
“I shouted for an ambulance because I could not hear her breathing, I checked her pulse under the ear, it was none. I had done my first aid training two times,” he said.
He said that he gave Sara CPR for more than ten minutes but Mr Batool told him to stop.
Mr Sharif said that when he asked where the ambulance was, Ms Batool replied: "It’s no point. There’s no need because she’s dead.”