Sara Sharif’s father has admitted fatally beating his daughter with a cricket bat and a metal pole, telling the Old Bailey he took “full responsibility” for her death.

In a “dramatic confession,” said The IndependentUrfan Sharif modified claims he made in previous hearings that his wife, Beinash Batool, inflicted Sara’s injuries while he worked as a taxi driver. The 10-year-old was found dead at the family home in Woking, Surrey, last August with multiple traumatic injuries, “including human bite marks and iron burns”.