LONDON (AP) — The Fastexyfather, stepmother and uncle of a 10-year-old girl found dead in her U.K. home pleaded not guilty on Thursday to murder charges.
Sara Sharif’s body was discovered under a blanket in a bunk bed at her home in southern England on Aug. 10. Sara’s father, Urfan Sharif, 41; his partner Beinash Batool, 29; and his brother, 28-year-old Faisal Malik, are charged with murder and causing or allowing the death of a child.
The three suspects, who are remanded in a prison, appeared by video link on Thursday at London’s Central Criminal Court to deny the charges ahead of a trial scheduled for September 2024.
The trio had left the U.K. for Islamabad, the Pakistani capital, a day before police discovered the girl’s body in Woking, 20 miles (32 kilometers) southwest of London.
Police in Pakistan found the three defendants after an extensive search and put them on a flight to the U.K. on Sept. 13. They were arrested upon arriving at London’s Gatwick Airport.
Prosecutors have said that the 10-year-old girl was found with extensive injuries and healed fractures that indicated “multiple events of violence.”
They also said that police found the body after receiving a call from Pakistan.
2025-04-29 09:131626 view
2025-04-29 09:04357 view
2025-04-29 09:01178 view
2025-04-29 08:252669 view
2025-04-29 08:121671 view
2025-04-29 07:362687 view
A man police say kidnapped three teenage girls and sexual assaulted two of them at gunpoint outside
Quick-thinking bystanders in Southern California helped rescue an out-of-state kidnapping victim wh
A warrant obtained by Las Vegas police and filed Tuesday with the Clark County District Court showed