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

Father Urfan Sharif, stepmother Beinash Batool and uncle Faisal Malik are accused of carrying out a campaign of abuse against the 10-year-old.

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.

Sara Sharif “never smiled once” in the months before she was allegedly murdered by three members of her family, a neighbour has told jurors. The Old Bailey heard that the 10-year-old girl had not mixed with her family during a summer’s party, and that neighbours had been told she was homeschooled due to bullying.

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’.

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,

“In an upstairs bedroom, on a bottom bunk bed, the police found the body of a little girl, lying in bed, under the cover, as if asleep. But she was not asleep. She was dead. Her name was Sara Sharif, and she had been just ten years old when she was killed,” Mr Emlyn-Jones KC said.

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