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,

Sara Sharif, 10, suffered more than 70 injuries shortly before she was found dead in her home in Woking, Surrey, on August 10 last year. Her father Urfan Sharif is now on trial

Ten-year-old Sara Sharif was strangled until a bone broke in her neck in the months before her death, a court heard on Thursday.

Jurors were told that the fracture of the hyoid bone in her neck was likely to have occurred between six to 12 weeks before she was died

Sara’s father Urfan Sharif, stepmother Beinash Batool and uncle Faisal Malik are on trial at the Old Bailey accused of the 10-year-old’s murder.

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.