Ten-year-old Sara Sharif likely experienced "daily pain and suffering" over several weeks before her death, a court heard. Injuries she suffered before her body was found at her family home in August last year were "noticeable" and "obvious", expert witness Niall Martin told the Old Bailey.

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.

Sara Sharif’s teacher twice saw her at school with bruises on her face five months before she was found dead, a jury has heard. Helen Simmons told the Old Bailey that Sara said she “had fallen over on some roller-skates" after she saw her injuries in March 2023.

The trial of three family members accused of murdering schoolgirl Sara Sharif has resumed on Wednesday, with neighbours who allegedly heard the 10-year-old “screaming” giving evidence. Jurors have been told of a “campaign of abuse” against Sara,

Sara Sharif had suffered an “extremely rare” fracture in her neck, which a radiologist said he had “never seen” in a child before. Examinations showed she had an injury to her hyoid bone in her throat, which was likely to have been caused between six to 12 weeks before her death.

A neighbour of Sara Sharif who tried to inquire about "screaming" coming from inside the 10-year-old's home had the door shut in her face, a court was told. Rebecca Spencer, who lived in a flat above the Sharif's previous family home in West Byfleet,

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.