Sara Sharif’s father cried as he confessed to killing his daughter in a phone call to police from Pakistan, a court has heard.
Urfan Sharif, 42, is on trial at the Old Bailey accused of murdering 10-year-old Sara alongside her stepmother, Beinash Batool, 30, and uncle, Faisal Malik, 29.
On Thursday, jurors were played a recording of the eight-and-a-half-minute phone call Sharif made to the police non-emergency 101 number on 2.47am on August 10 2023, two days after Sara died.
Below is the full transcript of the recording.
Operator: Surrey Police, how can I help?
Urfan Sharif: Hello?
Operator: Hello. How can I help?
Sharif: Hold on, I couldn’t take… can you write down my address please?
Sharif: Hello.
Operator: Yes, hello. Is everything OK?
Sharif: Hello can you (inaudible). Nothing is OK. Can you write down my address please?
Operator: I don’t understand what you’re saying.
Sharif: Can you write down my address please?
Operator: OK. What’s your, what’s your postcode?
Sharif: G-U twenty one…
Operator: Yeah.
Sharif: …four T-Q.
Operator: Tango, Quebec?
Sharif: (Inaudible)
Operator: OK. What’s happened?
Sharif: Hammond…
Operator: What number?
Sharif: Ham…
Operator: What number? What number?
Sharif: Number six.
Operator: OK.
Sharif: Hammond…
Operator: Take a deep…, take a deep breath.
Sharif: …Road.
Operator: Take a deep breath and tell me what’s happened.
Sharif: I cannot, I… I did legally punish…
Operator: OK.
Operator: I, I need you to take a breath cos I cannot understand what you’re saying, OK? Your daughter has died?
Sharif: I killed my daughter. I killed my daughter.
Operator: OK.
Sharif: Hello? Hello?
Operator: Yes, hello.
Sharif: I get you go to number six Hammond Road please.
Operator: OK. Don’t worry.
Sharif: Nobody’s at home. Hello?
Operator: Hello, I’m still here. I’m still here.
Sharif: Sorry.
Operator: I’m still here.
Sharif: Can you get someone there, I left my… I left my front door keys under the front mat.
Operator: OK.
Sharif: Oh, my daughter’s dead. I panicked and left home.
Operator: Who’s killed your daughter?
Sharif: It’s me.
Operator: OK.
Sharif: Her Dada
Operator: How?
Sharif: I think she was naughty after she just died.
Operator: I’m gonna need you to slow…
Sharif: I…
Operator: …down, OK? How have you killed your daughter?
Sharif: I beat her up, I, it wasn’t my intention to kill her, but (inaudible) I beat her up too much.
Sharif: She’s number six…
Operator: OK.
Sharif: …Hammond Road.
Operator: Where are you?
Sharif: I’ve left the property. I’m gonna come back.
Operator: OK.
Sharif: I’ll come…
Operator: What’s your name?
Sharif: Back if you can go….
Operator: What is your name?
Sharif: My, my name is Urfan SHARIF.
Operator: Er, can you spell that for me?
Sharif: It’s U for umbrella…
Operator: Mm hmm.
Sharif: …R for Romeo…
Operator: Yep.
Sharif: …F for Freddie, A for alpha and N for November.
Operator: Sorry, U-R…
Sharif: F-A-N.
Operator: OK. Second name please.
Sharif: S for Sugar, H for Hotel, A for Alpha, R for Romeo, I for Indigo, F for Freddie.
Operator: Brilliant.
Sharif: Ugh.
Operator: Can I get your date of birth?
Sharif: Sorry? My…
Operator: Date of…
Sharif: …date of birth is the twenty-five, eleven, eighty-one. Hello?
Operator: Hello, I’m still here. I’m just writing all of this down.
Sharif: Can you send someone? My daughter is alone.
Operator: Yes, yes…
Sharif: Please help…
Operator: …don’t worry…
Sharif: …stay on the phone…
Operator: …don’t worry, don’t worry…
Sharif: …(inaudible) you have to see.
Operator: …nothing’s going to be slowed down, OK? What is your…
Sharif: I’m going to hand over…
Operator: OK.
Sharif: …hand over myself.
Operator: OK, OK. I need you to slow down, OK? What is your daughter’s name?
Sharif: Sara Sharif.
Operator: OK.
Sharif: S-A-R…
Operator: OK, I need you,
Sharif: …A
Operator: I need you to slow down, OK? How do you spell your daughter’s name?
Sharif: S-A-R-A.
Operator: S-A-R-A?
Sharif: Yeah.
Operator: Yep.
Sharif: Oh, and SHARIF surname. S-H-A-R-I-F.
Operator: OK. What’s her date of birth?
Sharif: Oh. It’s eleven, eleventh of the January two thousand thirteen. She’s only 10 years old. Oh my God.
Operator: Two thousand and what?
Sharif: Thirteen. Oh. Oh.
Operator: OK. What happened? What, what led you to, what led to this all happening?
Sharif: I think she was naughty over the last, three four weeks and I was giving her punishment, but she… to sort her out.
Operator: Mm hmm.
Sharif: And yes I did something and she died.
Operator: Was she breathing when you left?
Sharif: No, she wasn’t, I tried to resuscitate her. I tried to, to give her CPR, everything but I fail, I left in a panic.
Operator: OK.
Sharif: I’m gonna.
Operator: Was she bleeding anywhere?
Sharif: Ugh. No.
Operator: OK.
Sharif: She is dead I am telling you.
Operator: What…, what injuries did she sustain? How long ago…
Sharif: (Inaudible)
Operator: …was this? How long ag…,
Sharif: Sorry?
Operator: When did this happen?
Sharif: It, agh, you, agh…
Operator: I need you to listen to me, OK? When did this happen?
Sharif: It’s about 36 hours ago… about 36 hours ago.
Operator: Thirty…
Sharif: But I left.
Operator: This happened 36 hours ago?
Sharif: Yes. I’m a cruel father. I’m gonna come back…
Operator: Where…
Sharif: …and
Operator: …are you right now?
Sharif: I’m not alone, I’m gonna come back.
Operator: So, you’re still… you’re driving right now?
Sharif: I’m driving. I’ll come back.
Operator: OK. What is your registration number?
Sharif: I feel hurt…
Operator: What is your re…
Sharif: I left my…
Operator: OK.
Sharif: It’s L for Lima…
Operator: Yep.
Sharif: …R for Romeo…
Operator: Yep.
Sharif: 5-7, Freddie, Victor, Charlie.
Operator: What sort of car is it?
Sharif: It’s BMW X5. I left that at Heathrow car park. Terminal three. On the top floor.
Operator: Sorry, what was that?
Sharif: My car is at Terminal three short stop, short…
Operator: Sorry…
Sharif: …stay car park.
Operator: …what car are you in right now, if you’re not driving your car?
Sharif: I’m in someone else car, please I’ll come back. Could you please send someone there…
Operator: Don’t, don’t worry…
Sharif: …my daughter is alone.
Operator: …we are already deployed. This is not slowing anything, any of this down. OK?
Sharif: Argh.
Operator: Whose car are you in?
Sharif: I’m in my, someone else car.
Operator: Whose car are you in though?
Sharif: It someone else car. Please, I’ll come…
Operator: OK.
Sharif: …back.
Operator: Do you…
Sharif: I’ll (inaudible) myself…
Operator: Is anyone else…
Sharif: …could you…
Operator: …at the home with, with your daughter?
Sharif: No-one’s at home. Was just me. No-one is at home.
Operator: OK. Do you know the re…
Sharif: Could you please…
Operator: Yeah, don’t worry, we’re already sending officers on the way. OK? What…, do you know the…
Sharif: (Inaudible)
Operator: …registration for the car that you’re driving?
Sharif: No.
Operator: Whose car, is it?
Sharif: …I’m not around, could you please go there? I get back to you soon. I, I’ll hand over myself. I’ll come to Woking Police Station.
Operator: No, you need to go back to the address now. OK? You need to go back to the address.
Sharif: I will.
Operator: OK? What is your pho…
Sharif: Is somebody there right there?
Operator: No. Listen to me. What is your phone number?
Sharif: It’s zero, double seven…
Operator: Yep.
Sharif: Seven, zero, seven, zero, seven, four, two, four…
Operator: Slow down.
Sharif: …seven, four, six, two.
Operator: Slow down. Slow down. Slow down. 0-7-7…
Sharif: No, seven, four…
Operator: …0-7-4…
Sharif: Two, four, seven, four
Operator: …2-4-7-4…
Sharif: Six, two, eight, five.
Operator: So where… where are you? I know you said you were driving, but can you see a road? Where are you right now?
Sharif: Um, I, I cannot give more detail, I… I promise I’ll come back. I’ll, I’ll find, I’ll, I’ll face the death sentence.
Operator: I, I need to know where you are.
Sharif: (No response)
Operator: OK. I, like, give me a landmark, give me anything. Where are you? Do you know what town you’re in?
Sharif: I don’t know.
Operator: OK. So, if you live in Woking, do… are you driving through Guildford, are you driving through West Byfleet, are you driving through Ald…, Aldershot? Where, where are you driving right now?
(Recording ends)
