Sara Sharif’s father ‘controlling the narrative’, jury told

Mr Ivers KC told jurors: “You don’t have to be Mystic Meg in this case to realise that there’s an issue in and around causation.”

He said: “In a nutshell, he [Mr Sharif] accepted a beating that he had delivered on the 6th and there was then some breaks ….in the end we got to a position where the indictment wasn’t put again.

“What if it was, what if he had pleaded guilty….and the Crown were asking questions based upon what had happened on the 6th?

“If he’d said yes, if he’d said guilty, do you think anybody would be scratching around trying to add a bruise to a bite etc…etc…some cumulative effect when the answer is staring at you in the face about what caused her death.

“Urfan Sharif is controlling the narrative even now.”