Ten-year-old Sara Sharif suffered injuries which were comparable to a person involved in a car crash, a court has heard. The girl's body, which was found in her family's home in Surrey last year, had signs of healing spinal fractures which had then been rebroken, the Old Bailey was told.

The 10-year-old’s injuries were consistent with ‘significant and repetitive blunt force trauma’ with an ‘instrument’, a court heard

Sara’s body also had a number of scars from previous injuries, he added. The court previously heard that Sara was hooded, burned and beaten during more than two years of abuse. She had suffered 11 fractures to her spine, burns to her buttocks, caused by a domestic iron, and signs of a traumatic brain injury, the court was told.

Sara Sharif began wearing a hijab to hide her facial injuries in January 2023, months before her body was discovered at her home in Woking, Surrey, jurors at the Old Bailey were told. A post-mortem examination found Sara had suffered dozens of injuries including "probable human bite marks",

The father of the brutally abused girl, Sara Sharif, appeared before a British court. Earlier, he admitted to her murder and fled to Pakistan with his partner and the girl's uncle. It turns out that beneath the pillow on which her body was found,

A 10-year-old girl who allegedly died at the hands of her father, stepmother and uncle wore a hijab to hide facial injuries she received in the lead up to her death, a court has heard. Sara Sharif began wearing the religious headscarf in January 2023 - eight months before her body was found at her family's house in Woking,