Urfan Sharif (left) and Beinash Batool are wanted for questioning in connection with Sara Sharif’s death (Picture: PA)
Three suspects wanted in connection with the death of a 10-year-old girl are using media reports to avoid being found, police in Pakistan have said.
Sara Sharif was found dead at her home in Woking, Surrey on August 10. She had suffered ‘multiple and extensive injuries’ over an ‘extended period of time’.
Her father Urfan Sharif, 41, his wife Beinash Batool, 29, and his brother Faisal Malik, 28, flew from the UK to Pakistan the day before Sara’s body was found.
They flew on one-way tickets, and police discovered her body after Mr Sharif called police from Pakistan’s capital city, Islamabad.
The local council said Sara was known to social services, and she had reportedly been seen with cuts and bruises months before her death.
Pakistan police have now said the trio are ‘one step ahead’ of them, the Telegraph reports.
Surrey Police say they are wanted for questioning in connection with Sara’s death, and an international hunt involving Interpol and Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency has been launched.
Last week authorities in Pakistan raided a large number of properties in Jhelum, a city in the north of Punjab, in search of Mr Sharif’s relatives who may know where the family is hiding.
On Monday officers said that the trio were constantly moving and were closely following media reports to keep ahead.
Mr Malik had previously spoken to Pakistan police, telling them his niece had ‘fallen down the stairs and broken her neck’.
‘We are trying our best to arrest Urfan, Beinash and Faisal soon. They keep changing the locations’, Malik Nisar, a police inspector at Domeli Police Station in Jhelum and a head of one of the three teams hunting them said.
Sardar Nisar Ahmed Khan, the spokesman of the Regional Police Office Rawalpindi added: ‘The media is reporting minute by minute and I think they are changing the location through media reporting and they are monitoring the news to avoid the arrest.
‘Police initiated several raids but got no breakthrough yet. This case is a challenge for us and we want to unburden ourselves by arresting them soon.’
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‘Police initiated several raids but got no breakthrough yet. This case is a challenge for us and we want to unburden ourselves by arresting them soon.’