Jurors previously heard Sara had been hooded, burned, bitten and beaten during more than two years of abuse.

They were also previously told by the prosecution that the accuracy of messages sent by Ms Batool to her sisters over a number of years was in dispute, as they only reflected what she was choosing to tell them.

Ms Batool sent images of Sara’s injuries to her sister Qandeela Saboohi, but then deleted them from the message stream, the court heard.

The recovered images showed multiple injuries to Sara.

In May 2021 Ms Batool told her sister that she wanted to report Urfan for beating “the crap out of Sara”.

She added: “She’s covered in bruises, literally … black”, adding “poor girl can’t walk, she literally fainted in the kitchen in the morning” and “he made her do sit ups all night”.

In one exchange in February 2022, Ms Batool messaged another sister, Amima Shahid, to say that Mr Sharif was beating Sara up at home.

Ms Batool went on to say that “[if] something happens to Sara I will not be able to forgive myself”.

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