Sara Sharif's body was found in a bunkbed at her home in Woking, Surrey. Three of the 10-year-old's relatives are on trial at the Old Bailey accused of her murder

Neighbours have told a jury at the Old Bailey of the noises they heard at the family home of Sara Sharif in Woking before her death

She was discovered dead in a bed at the family home on Hammond Road in Woking, after her father Urfan Sharif called Surrey Police during the early hours of 10 August to report he had “beat her” as she was being “naughty”, and that she had died.

A neighbour of Sara Sharif has said she never once saw the ten-year-old child smile in the months before she was killed.

A neighbour of murdered schoolgirl Sara Sharif told jurors she once had the door slammed in her face by the 10-year-old’s stepmum after the sound of screaming inside their flat reached ‘fever pitch’.

Beinash Batool, 30, allegedly swore at her stepdaughter and ordered her to 'deal with' the children if they started crying.

A former neighbour of Sara Sharif’s family had a door slammed in her face when she confronted them over the “constant screaming and banging” coming from their home, a court heard. The ten-year-old schoolgirl was allegedly later killed by her father,

Neighbours to give evidence after ‘gut-wrenching scream’ heard from house - Jurors have heard that neighbours had heard screaming and shouting from the 10-year-old’s home