Ten-year-old Sara Sharif suffered injuries which were comparable to a person involved in a car crash, a court has heard. The girl's body, which was found in her family's home in Surrey last year, had signs of healing spinal fractures which had then been rebroken, the Old Bailey was told.

The 10-year-old’s injuries were consistent with ‘significant and repetitive blunt force trauma’ with an ‘instrument’, a court heard

Sara Sharif had unexplained fractures in 25 locations on her body which were most likely caused by "multiple episodes of blunt force trauma inflicted over several weeks", a court has heard.

Sara’s body also had a number of scars from previous injuries, he added. The court previously heard that Sara was hooded, burned and beaten during more than two years of abuse. She had suffered 11 fractures to her spine, burns to her buttocks, caused by a domestic iron, and signs of a traumatic brain injury, the court was told.

Sara Sharif had suffered multiple fractures across 25 locations on her body, court told - A radiologist told jurors that he had ‘never seen’ a hyoid bone fracture in a child before

Experts who examined Sara said she had suffered at least 25 different bone fractures and had been strangled with "severe force." Professor Owen Arthurs said the ten-year-old had suffered the injuries "over several weeks",

A 10-year-old girl who allegedly died at the hands of her father, stepmother and uncle wore a hijab to hide facial injuries she received in the lead up to her death, a court has heard. Sara Sharif began wearing the religious headscarf in January 2023 - eight months before her body was found at her family's house in Woking,

Sara’s father, Urfan Sharif, is on trial accused of his daughter’s murder, alongside Sara’s stepmother, Beinash Batool, and uncle, Faisal Malik.