Sara Sharif’s father has accepted “full responsibility” for her death but denied that he intended to kill her, a court has heard.

The father of Sara Sharif has told jurors he “takes full responsibility” for the death of his 10-year-old daughter.

Sara Sharif’s father has confessed to killing the 10-year-old but insisted he did not mean to “harm” her when he bound and beat her with a cricket bat. Taxi driver Urfan Sharif, 42, had sought to blame Sara’s stepmother Beinash Batool,