Sara Sharif’s father has denied that the little girl’s battered body was stripped naked and hosed down in the garden before the family fled to Pakistan.

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It comes as police released images of a cricket bat and metal pole which taxi driver Urfan Sharif admitted using to attack him before he died.

Sharif said he used packing tape to attach Sarah and also hit her with a cell phone.

But he denied biting her on the arm and thigh, burning her with an iron and boiling water and putting her head in a hood as he punished her for “naughty” behavior .

Jurors heard that Sara’s soiled leggings and diapers were thrown into the garden near a jetwash with the duct tape and hoodies in the trash.

The 10-year-old girl was wearing clean clothes when her body was found in a bunk bed at the family home in Woking, Surrey, after Sharif called the police on his arrival in Islamabad in August last year, the Old Bailey learned.

Sharif, 42, his wife Beinash Batool, 30, and his brother Faisal Malik, 29, are accused of taking part in years-long abuse that culminated in Sara’s death.

All three fled to Pakistan before returning to the UK in September 2023 where they were detained.

Sharif previously told the court he took “full responsibility” for Sara’s death but pleaded not guilty to his murder.

Prosecutor William Emlyn Jones KC suggested all three defendants were involved in her death, saying: “You’re all in this together.”

He suggested the evidence showed Sara’s body had been moved from the upstairs of the house and taken to the garden, stripped of her dirty leggings and diaper and cleaned.

The prosecutor asked Sharif: “Wasn’t she in the garden? Didn’t you take her to the shed? You had a lot of tidying up to do, the house was spotlessly tidy and the bin was full of duct tape. packaging, various hoods And Sara’s body has been cleaned, hasn’t it?

“She wasn’t in the clothes she died in when you left the house, so she had been cleaned and washed?

“There was a washspout in the backyard with her dirty clothes and the rest of the trash. These are the leggings Sara died in, intertwined with a dirty diaper, wrapped in two towels, soaked.”

Sharif told jurors he only cleaned Sara’s head and did not remove her clothes.

Mr Emlyn Jones also asked whether Sharif’s brother helped clean Sara’s body, saying: “Someone undressed her, someone washed her. Did he – Faisal?”

The accused replied: “No sir, it has not been washed.”

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Sharif denied anything was thrown the night Sara died.

Sharif, Batool and Malik deny murder and causing or allowing Sara’s death.

The trial was adjourned until Monday.