I was wondering how his defence would manage this change of tack - nothing for it but to continue the attack, to some extent! But if it's meant to show he's really a caring dad, despite everything, it's a doomed attempt.11 minutes ago
Sharif says he ‘doesn’t know’ when was last time he beat his daughter
Taking questions from his own lawyer, Urfan Sharif said “didn’t know” when the last time he beat his daughter before hitting her on the Tuesday.
He repeatedly denied beating her over the previous weekend, despite post-mortem evidence showing that she had suffered a traumatic brain injury.
He also denied placing the white pole which he used to strike her in an outbuilding in the garden.
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‘I’ve been mean with her,’ Sharif tells jury
Addressing Sharif in the witness box, Naeem Mian KC said: “A couple of days ago now you stood up there and you said to the jury and his Lordship that I have something to say before any questions were put to you. Do you remember doing that?”
“Yes,” he replied.
“And then you switched from plan A to plan B. Just to take it broadly, plan A was to blame your wife Batool.
“And now plan B, you have stood there day after day and said ‘I take responsibility, I’m to blame, it was all me, it was nothing to do with Batool, it was nothing to do with Faisal’. Can you help us please with this; everybody may be wondering why you have suddenly after six days start saying it’s my responsibility?”
Sharif responded: “She was my daughter. I’ve been nasty, I’ve been mean with her. I couldn’t care for her, I didn’t do what a father should have done and I’ll take responsibility for everything.”
He did however deny causing the bite marks, the burn injuries and placing a hood over her face.
Sara Sharif’s father denies stripping and jetwashing body before fleeing to Pakistan
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I imagine that US family in Pakistan did grow up in a disciplined home, despite what he said. There are too many obvious elements of control in Sara’s home for this not to have been a theme in all their lives.
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Father denies Sara Sharif’s body stripped and jetwashed in garden
Sara Sharif’s father denied her battered body was stripped and jetwashed in the garden as the family prepared to flee to Pakistan.The 10-year-old was wearing clean clothes when her body was found in a bunkbed at the family home in Woking, Surrey, after Sharif called police on arrival in Islamabad, the Old Bailey has heard.
Sara Sharif’s father denies stripping and jetwashing body before fleeing to Pakistan
Urfan Sharif, his wife and brother are accused of being “all in this together” by discarding her clothes and fleeing to Pakistan
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Father denies Sara Sharif’s body stripped and jetwashed in garden
Sara Sharif’s father denied her battered body was stripped and jetwashed in the garden as the family prepared to flee to Pakistan.
The 10-year-old was wearing clean clothes when her body was found in a bunkbed at the family home in Woking, Surrey, after Sharif called police on arrival in Islamabad, the Old Bailey has heard.
Sara Sharif’s father denies stripping and jetwashing body before fleeing to Pakistan
Urfan Sharif, his wife and brother are accused of being “all in this together” by discarding her clothes and fleeing to Pakistan
"Her soiled leggings and nappy were discarded in the garden near a jetwash
with packaging tape and hoods in the bin,
jurors were told.
Mr Emlyn Jones
suggested the evidence showed
she was then taken into the garden,
stripped of her dirty leggings and nappy and cleaned.
'She wasn’t in the clothes she died in when you left the house,
so she had been cleaned and washed?'
'There was a jetwash out in the garden
with her dirty clothes and the rest of the rubbish.
Those are the leggings Sara died in, entwined with a filthy nappy, bundled up with two towels, soaking wet.'
Sharif had told jurors he only cleaned Sara’s head and did not remove her clothes."
Each new detail is more sickening than the previous one.
Sara Sharif’s father denies stripping and jetwashing body before fleeing to Pakistan
Urfan Sharif, his wife and brother are accused of being “all in this together” by discarding her clothes and fleeing to Pakistan
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Truly sickening, what this beautiful little girl endured during her short life is absolutely heartbreaking."Her soiled leggings and nappy were discarded in the garden near a jetwash
with packaging tape and hoods in the bin,
jurors were told.
Mr Emlyn Jones
suggested the evidence showed
she was then taken into the garden,
stripped of her dirty leggings and nappy and cleaned.
'She wasn’t in the clothes she died in when you left the house,
so she had been cleaned and washed?'
'There was a jetwash out in the garden
with her dirty clothes and the rest of the rubbish.
Those are the leggings Sara died in, entwined with a filthy nappy, bundled up with two towels, soaking wet.'
Sharif had told jurors he only cleaned Sara’s head and did not remove her clothes."
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"On Friday,
prosecutor William Emlyn Jones KC
suggested all three defendants were involved, despite Sharif’s claim that
he took 'full responsibility' for Sara’s death."
Absolutely!
“ 'You are all in this together.
A problem you caused together,
you all have to run away together'.
'You were all worried about yourselves,
all three of you were thinking about yourselves
and getting away with it'.”
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prosecutor William Emlyn Jones KC
suggested all three defendants were involved, despite Sharif’s claim that
he took 'full responsibility' for Sara’s death."
Absolutely!
“ 'You are all in this together.
A problem you caused together,
you all have to run away together'.
'You were all worried about yourselves,
all three of you were thinking about yourselves
and getting away with it'.”
YES!!!
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Court adjourns for the day
The trial has adjourneduntil Monday and will resume
at midday.
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The prosecutor queried how Malik's McDonald's work uniform came to be thrown in the bin outside along with packaging tape and hoods placed on top.
Sharif replied: "I don't know, sir."
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Sharif replied: "I don't know, sir."
Sara Sharif's dad denies her battered body was stripped and jetwashed in garden
The 10-year-old was wearing clean clothes when her body was found in a bunkbed at the family home in Surrey.
I really don't see why US hasn't changed his plea by now, his admissions are just... ugh. Leaves no doubt in my mind, anyway. Poor, poor Sara.
I'm sure BB had some involvement in the cruelty, but US seems to be trying to take some blame off her now, rather than entirely blaming her as before, it's strange. Hard to tell who did what now, but I imagine all the things he didn't admit were her, I'll be interested to see if she gives evidence, and if so, if the crossexamination can get as many admissions out of her as it did on US.
As for FM, hmm. I haven't yet seen enough evidence of his participation; DNA on an item that may just be lying around the house to be moved by anyone isn't really enough alone, although I'm sure the jury have heard more than I have. The causing or allowing death charge is harder to get out of, although I can speculate on a defence tactic - US is much older than him, and known to be a violent man towards those weaker than him. FM may well have had childhood experiences to make him scared of US, plus I can imagine a "respect your elders" attitude as well, so he may well feel (or have been forcefully told) minding his own business regarding US's discipline methods is a wise idea, and have closed his eyes to everything until it went too far. Not an excuse at all IMO, but perhaps an explanation and maybe some mitigation.
I'm sure BB had some involvement in the cruelty, but US seems to be trying to take some blame off her now, rather than entirely blaming her as before, it's strange. Hard to tell who did what now, but I imagine all the things he didn't admit were her, I'll be interested to see if she gives evidence, and if so, if the crossexamination can get as many admissions out of her as it did on US.
As for FM, hmm. I haven't yet seen enough evidence of his participation; DNA on an item that may just be lying around the house to be moved by anyone isn't really enough alone, although I'm sure the jury have heard more than I have. The causing or allowing death charge is harder to get out of, although I can speculate on a defence tactic - US is much older than him, and known to be a violent man towards those weaker than him. FM may well have had childhood experiences to make him scared of US, plus I can imagine a "respect your elders" attitude as well, so he may well feel (or have been forcefully told) minding his own business regarding US's discipline methods is a wise idea, and have closed his eyes to everything until it went too far. Not an excuse at all IMO, but perhaps an explanation and maybe some mitigation.
"On the same night as Sara's death,
Batool was on the phone to a travel agent
arranging flights to Pakistan for the next day,
the court heard.
Replaying the call,
Mr Emlyn Jones said it was
'brutal'
that both she and Sharif sounded so 'calm'
as Sara's body was upstairs."
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Batool was on the phone to a travel agent
arranging flights to Pakistan for the next day,
the court heard.
Replaying the call,
Mr Emlyn Jones said it was
'brutal'
that both she and Sharif sounded so 'calm'
as Sara's body was upstairs."
Sara Sharif's father denies jetwashing daughter's body after her death
Taxi driver Urfan Sharif, 42, his wife Beinash Batool, 30, and brother Faisal Malik, 29, are accused of being party to years-long abuse which culminated in Sara Sharif's death last August.
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Re Faisal Malik, what about the McDonald's uniform being put in with the other stuff? Just coincidence?
Holy christ !!! A jet wash . Despicable. Not only did they abuse Sara in life they continued to abuse her brutally as she was taking her last breath or had already done so . I thought I was unable to be shocked anymore but Wow"Her soiled leggings and nappy were discarded in the garden near a jetwash
with packaging tape and hoods in the bin,
jurors were told.
Mr Emlyn Jones
suggested the evidence showed
she was then taken into the garden,
stripped of her dirty leggings and nappy and cleaned.
'She wasn’t in the clothes she died in when you left the house,
so she had been cleaned and washed?'
'There was a jetwash out in the garden
with her dirty clothes and the rest of the rubbish.
Those are the leggings Sara died in, entwined with a filthy nappy, bundled up with two towels, soaking wet.'
Sharif had told jurors he only cleaned Sara’s head and did not remove her clothes."
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Urfan Sharif, his wife and brother are accused of being “all in this together” by discarding her clothes and fleeing to Pakistan
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