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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Holly Evans

Sara Sharif showed signs of starvation and suffered broken bone in neck weeks before death, jury told

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Sara Sharif showed signs of starvation or the “rapid removal of food”, according to a pathologist who discovered an unusual indicator in her bone marrow, a jury was told.

A trial at the Old Bailey also heard how the 10-year-old schoolgirl had likely been strangled until a bone in her neck had broken, up to three months before she died last August.

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