{"id":4347,"date":"2023-09-15T13:54:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T13:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/sara-sharif-murder-case-10-year-old-girls-relatives-in-uk-court-after-manhunt-in-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2023-09-15T13:54:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T13:54:06","slug":"sara-sharif-murder-case-10-year-old-girls-relatives-in-uk-court-after-manhunt-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/sara-sharif-murder-case-10-year-old-girls-relatives-in-uk-court-after-manhunt-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara Sharif murder case: 10-year-old girl\u2019s relatives in UK court after manhunt in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The father, stepmother and uncle of a 10-year-old girl whose death<\/a> sparked an international manhunt in Pakistan have appeared in court in the UK charged with her murder.<\/p>\n

The court hearing came after the three were arrested<\/a> on Wednesday after disembarking a flight from Dubai after spending a month in the South Asian country.<\/p>\n

Sara Sharif\u2019s body was discovered at the family\u2019s home near Woking, southern England, on August 10. A post-mortem examination revealed she had sustained \u201cmultiple and extensive injuries\u201d over a sustained period.<\/p>\n

Sara\u2019s father Urfan Sharif, 41, his partner Beinash Batool, 29, and his brother Faisal Malik, 28, all traveled to Pakistan to stay with relatives before her body was found.<\/p>\n

The three appeared in the dock at a magistrates\u2019 court in Guildford, southern England, flanked by police officers.<\/p>\n

They spoke only to confirm their names, dates of birth and addresses.<\/p>\n

All three have also been charged with causing or allowing the death of a child, Surrey Police said earlier in a statement.<\/p>\n

No pleas to any of the charges were entered during the short hearing. Deputy Chief Magistrate Tan Ikram remanded the defendants in custody.<\/p>\n

Their next court appearance will be at London\u2019s Old Bailey on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Surrey Police said previously the trio were thought to have flown to Islamabad on August 9, the day before Sara\u2019s body was discovered.<\/p>\n

An early morning emergency call alerting officers to Sara\u2019s death was made from Pakistan by a man identifying himself as the father, detectives said.<\/p>\n

The house was otherwise empty, and the manhunt continued with Interpol and Britain\u2019s foreign ministry coordinating with authorities in Pakistan.<\/p>\n

Five of Sara\u2019s purported siblings, aged between one and 13, and brought to Pakistan<\/a> with the adults, were discovered at the home of Urfan Sharif\u2019s father on Monday.<\/p>\n

The girl\u2019s Polish mother, Olga Sharif, has said she could barely recognise her daughter\u2019s small, battered body when she identified her at the mortuary last month.<\/p>\n

She told Polish television one of her cheeks was swollen and the other side of her face was bruised.<\/p>\n

Olga and Urfan separated in 2015, and Sara and her older brother had lived with their mother until a family court determined in 2019 that they should reside with their father, according to UK media.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The father, stepmother and uncle of a 10-year-old girl whose death sparked an international manhunt in Pakistan have appeared in court in the UK charged with her murder. The court hearing came after the three were arrested on Wednesday after disembarking a flight from Dubai after spending a month in the South Asian country. Sara […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/09\/151828210145d4b.jpg?r=182827","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}