Taxi driver Urfan Sharif, 42, who is on trial at the Old Bailey, confessed that he had battered the 10-year-old schoolgirl with a cricket bat and a metal pole.
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Caroline Carberry, KC, defending his wife Beinash Batool, 30, asked: 'Did you beat her? Did you inflict injuries on her'
Speaking softly in the dock, he nodded, saying: 'Yes.' He added: 'I take full responsibility.'
He denied biting or burning his daughter when asked to look at a folder detailing the injuries on her body. 'I can't do that. I can't look at it. I take full responsibility,' he said.
Ms Carberry said: 'Did you use the cricket bat to inflict these injuries.'
He said: 'Yes ma'am.'
She went on: 'Did you use a white metal pole to cause these marks.'
He answered: 'Yes ma'am.'
He said he took 'full responsibility' for breaking bones in her neck, but he did not know if he used a belt to cause the injury.
Batool fled the dock in tears as he confessed. The Old Bailey trial was paused this morning after the dramatic admissions.
Sharif, Batool, and Sara's uncle Faisal Malik, 29, formerly of Hammond Road, Woking, deny Sara's murder and causing or allowing her death.