At the time of the call, he was thousands of miles away in Islamabad, having travelled there on 9 August with his two co-defendants, Sara’s stepmother Beinash Batool, 30, and the girl’s uncle, Faisal Malik, 29.

A father accused of murdering his daughter in a “campaign of abuse” told police that he “legally punished her and she died”, a court heard.

Urfan Sharif confessed to killing his 10-year-old daughter Sara in 999 call after fleeing to Pakistan but now says this was "false", court told