Sara Sharif's neighbours heard 'gut-wrenching child's screams' before 'murder'

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A former neighbour of 10-year-old Sara Sharif claimed she would hear a child screaming followed by a "deathly quiet", the Old Bailey has heard.

On Tuesday, the court heard that Rebecca Spencer had heard screams "from the moment" the Sharif family moved into the flat in Eden Grove in West Byfleet around 2018 to 2019.Prosecutor William Emlyn Jones KC told jurors in the murder trial that Ms Spencer believed the “banging and rattling” sounded like “someone was banging on and pushing at a door” as if trying to open it, reports the Mirror.Reading a statement from the former neighbour, Mr Emlyn Jones said: "On the occasions, I would hear these banging and rattling sounds, they would often be accompanied by the sounds of a child crying or screaming, followed by complete silence."On those occasions, I can only describe the silence as ‘deathly quiet’ and I cannot even imagine what had happened to make the crying or screaming child become immediately silent.”Another neighbour, Chloe Redwin, whose statement was also read via Mr Emlyn Jones, claimed she heard “shockingly loud” sounds of smacking that were followed by “gut-wrenching screams” coming from the Sharif family home, the court heard.Prosecutor Emlyn Jones said Ms Redwin, who moved into the neighbouring property on Eden Grove in September 2020, said she heard screams followed by a woman shouting “shut the f**k up” and “go to your room you f*****g b*****d”.

Ms Redwin heard shouting and screaming at “any time of the day or night”, but that she noticed it did not occur when the “father of the household” was at home, he continued.She said she "often," said hello to Sara's father, Urfan Sharif, and that she believed he was "conscious of the noise his family made, because on