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Father, stepmother and uncle of dead girl appear in U.K. court on murder charge after Pakistan arrests

Sharif family lawyer, Attiq Malik, outside Guildford Magistrates' Court, in Guildford, England, Friday Sept. 15, 2023. The father, stepmother and uncle of Sara Sharif, a 10-year-old girl found dead in her U.K. home appeared in court on murder charges Friday after being arrested and deported from Pakistan after an extensive police search. (Jonathan Brady/PA via AP) Sharif family lawyer, Attiq Malik, outside Guildford Magistrates' Court, in Guildford, England, Friday Sept. 15, 2023. The father, stepmother and uncle of Sara Sharif, a 10-year-old girl found dead in her U.K. home appeared in court on murder charges Friday after being arrested and deported from Pakistan after an extensive police search. (Jonathan Brady/PA via AP)
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The father, stepmother and uncle of a 10-year-old girl found dead in her U.K. home appeared in court on murder charges Friday after being arrested and deported from Pakistan after an extensive police search.

Sara Sharif was found dead with extensive injuries at her home in Woking, 20 miles (32 kilometres) southwest of London, on Aug. 10. An autopsy did not establish a cause of death but showed that she had suffered "multiple and extensive injuries, which are likely to have been caused over a sustained and extended period of time," British police said.

Sara's father, Urfan Sharif, 41; his partner Beinash Batool, 29; and his 28-year-old brother, Faisal Malik, were charged early Friday with murder and causing or allowing the death of a child. They appeared for a brief hearing at Guildford Magistrates' Court near Woking, speaking only to confirm their names, dates of birth and addresses. They were not asked to enter pleas and were ordered detained until their next court hearing on Tuesday.

The three suspects, along with five children, had travelled to Islamabad, the Pakistani capital, a day before police discovered the girl's body.

Pakistani police began a search and detained 10 relatives of Urfan Sharif, including his father, brothers and cousins, for interrogation in an attempt to pressure the couple to surrender.

The three suspects were arrested by police in Pakistan on Wednesday and put on a flight to Gatwick Airport, where they were arrested.

The girl's five siblings, ranging in age from 1 to 13, were recovered by Pakistani police on Monday evening from Urfan Sharif's family home in central Pakistan. A court ordered the children to be placed in the custody of the Child Protection Bureau in Rawalpindi city, close to Islamabad.

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