Sara Sharif had suffered an “extremely rare” fracture in her neck, which a radiologist said he had “never seen” in a child before. Examinations showed she had an injury to her hyoid bone in her throat,

Three members of the same family are due to stand trial over the death of 10-year-old schoolgirl Sara Sharif.Her father Urfan Sharif, 42, her stepmother Beinash Batool, 30, and her uncle Faisal Malik,

Neighbours of ten-year-old Sara Sharif heard “gut wrenching” screams and the sounds of smacking in the years before she was found dead, the Old Bailey has heard.

A bone marrow disease found in Sara Sharif’s hands could have been caused by “starvation”, a court heard. Injuries to Sara’s wrist and neck bones were shown in court on the fourth day of the 10-year-old girl’s murder trial.