“She was beautiful, an angel, lovely, bubbly,” a weeping Urfan Sharif told the Old Bailey as he recounted his daughter Sara Sharif’s love of eating chicken biryani and playing guitar.
Yet just days later, he would take full responsibility for her traumatic death, admitting to a campaign of abuse that had seen the 10-year-old suffer more than 25 fractures, bite marks, a traumatic brain injury and a burn caused by a hot iron.
