There is footage of Sara Sharif dancing at her home a few days before her death, according to the court

Jurors were shown footage of Sara Sharif dancing at home in a video allegedly taken by her stepmother two days before the 10-year-old died.

The Old Bailey heard the girl suffered dozens of injuries, including burns and human bite marks, during a weeks-long campaign of harassment that culminated in her death on August 8 last year, the prosecution alleges.

42-year-old father Urfan Sharif, 30-year-old stepmother Beinash Batool and 29-year-old uncle Faisal Malik are accused of killing Sara.

The court heard that a video said to have been shot by Batool, showing Sara dancing at home and which “on the basis of available evidence” appeared to have been shot on August 6 last year, was played in court on Monday.

This date is controlled by the prosecutor’s office.

Batool cried on the dock when the video was played.

Forensic pathologist Dr. When cross-examined by Caroline Carberry KC for Batool, Nathaniel Cary accepted that Sara appeared “co-ordinated, alert and smiling at the camera”.

He also acknowledged that his behavior in the video was “inconsistent with the fact that he had suffered a brain injury with neurological symptoms at the time.”

Ms Carberry said there was “no dispute” on her client’s part that Sara had been “subject to intense physical abuse over a period of time”.

Sara’s body was found in a bunk bed at Sharif’s home in Woking, Surrey, after he told police he had fled to Pakistan with his family, the Old Bailey heard.

All three defendants, formerly of Hammond Road, Woking, deny murder and causing or permitting the death of a child between 16 December 2022 and 9 August 2023.

The trial continues.