Sara Sharif: a month of unanswered questions about 10-year-old’s death

Urfan Sharif (L) called 999 from Pakistan the day after he left the UK with his wife, Beinash Batool (R), to say that his daughter Sara (C), was dead at their Surrey home. Photograph: Surrey Police/AFP/Getty Images

When Olga Sharif went to identify her 10-year-old daughter, Sara, at the mortuary she could barely recognise the small battered body dressed in Mickey Mouse pyjamas.

“One of her cheeks was swollen and the other side was bruised”, she said in an interview on the Polish television channel TVN. “Even now, when I close my eyes I can see what my baby looked like.”