The father of Sara Sharif has denied that he deliberately destroyed phone evidence after the girl was found dead with multiple injuries at the family home. Urfan Sharif was questioned at his trial at the Old Bailey as to why none of the relatives had brought their phones back from Pakistan,

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,