Sara Sharif's dad denies her battered body was stripped and jetwashed in garden

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Sara Sharif's father has denied her battered body was stripped and jetwashed in the garden as the family prepared to flee to Pakistan.Taxi driver Urfan Sharif, 42, his wife Beinash Batool, 30, and brother Faisal Malik, 29, are accused of being party to years-long abuse which culminated in her death last August.

The 10-year-old was wearing clean clothes when her body was found in a bunkbed at the family home in Woking, Surrey, after Sharif called police on arrival in Islamabad, the Old Bailey has heard.Her soiled leggings and nappy were discarded in the garden near a jetwash with packaging tape and hoods in the bin, jurors were told.

Sharif has admitted tying the girl up with the tape and hitting her with a cricket bat, metal pole and mobile phone, even whacking her in the stomach as she lay dying in Batool's lap.But he has denied biting her on the arm and thigh, burning her with a domestic iron and boiling water and putting her head in a hood as he meted out punishments for "naughty" behaviour.

On Friday, prosecutor William Emlyn Jones KC suggested all three defendants were involved, despite Sharif's claim that he took "full responsibility" for Sara's death.On the defendant's actions after her death, he said: "You are all in this together.