Father begged to save Sara Sharif but was told ‘Leave it, she’s dead’ – court heard.
Jurors heard that Sharif initially decided to take the blame for Sara’s death and go to Pakistan
after Batool claimed that
another child had injured her.
Mr Mian suggested that Sharif had wrongly been cast as the
“villain of the piece”
because he only disciplined her with a “slap”.
Sharif had been working when Sara collapsed at home last August 8
and Batool told him to
“come home”,
the court heard.
Mr Mian told jurors:
“He came home and found her upstairs,
with Beinash Batool, limp.
He will tell you that he asked
‘What the hell has happened?’,
as any one of your number would.
“Having been told what had happened, he said
‘
I will take the blame’.
“He will tell you that he attempted CPR,
that he begged for an ambulance to be called as he did CPR.
"And he was told in Urdu or Punjabi
‘Leave it, she’s dead,
leave it, she’s dead".
Urfan Sharif is on trial at the Old Bailey accused of murdering the 10-year-old, along with her stepmother, Beinash Batool, and uncle Faisal Malik.
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