Sara Sharif's father tells court: 'I want to admit that it's all my fault'

Sara Sharif's father has told a court he takes "full responsibility" for the 10-year-old's death and admitted beating her with a cricket bat and a white metal pole. Urfan Sharif told jurors he accepted everything that he had told police in a 999 call and a handwritten confession after his daughter's death. During cross-examination by his wife, Beinash Batool's barrister, Caroline Carberry KC, he was asked: "Did you kill your daughter by beating?" He replied: "Yes, she died because of me.

" Sharif, 42, Batool, 30, and Sharif's brother Faisal Malik, 29, are on trial accused of carrying out a violent "campaign of abuse" before Sara was found dead in a bunk bed at the family home in Surrey on 10 August 2023. The defendants allegedly killed 10-year-old Sara on 8 August before fleeing to Pakistan, from where Sharif called police to say he had "beat her up too much". He had left a handwritten "confession" near her fully clothed body saying: "I swear to God that my intention was not to kill her.



But I lost it." As Sharif was to be cross-examined..

. Emine Sinmaz.