Father of Sara Sharif told police he had killed her, court hears

Urfan Sharif is accused alongside Sara's stepmother and uncle of killing 10-year-old at Surrey home in August 2023

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The father of the 10-year-old schoolgirl Sara Sharif killed her before fleeing to Pakistan and calling police to say he beat her up too much" as a punishment for being naughty, a court has heard.

Sara's body was discovered at the family home in Woking, Surrey, on 10 August last year alongside a handwritten note from her father, saying: I swear to God that my intention was not to kill her. But I lost it."