A MOTHER today admitted failing to protect her two-year-old daughter as she and her partner went on trial accused of conducting a campaign of violence in which dozens of injuries were inflicted on the girl before she died.

Zahbeena Navsarka, 21, of Riddings Road, Sheepridge, is charged, with her partner, Subhan Anwar, of murdering Sanam Navsarka in May last year.

Navsarka pleaded guilty to an alternative charge of failing to protect her daughter from Answar’s acts at the beginning of the trial at Bradford Crown Court.

But Julian Goose QC, prosecuting, told the jury that Navsarka and Anwar were both responsible for Sanam’s murder.

Mr Goose said: "Whether it was one, or the other, who actually inflicted the injuries, by doing nothing to help her or save her over a four-week period up to her death amounted to encouragement and support for all of the violence that took place.

"They were, we say, both in it together."

The court heard that Sanam died after fractures to both her thigh bones resulted in fatty deposits entering her bloodstream. She also had fractures to her arms.

Mr Goose said: "Sanam had been in a great deal of pain and distress over a long period leading up to her death."

He continued: "By the time that the 999 call was made on May 8 Sanam had stopped walking, she had difficulty breathing and she had two fractured legs and both of her arms had been fractured."

The jury of six men and six women heard how Anwar, who was not Sanam’s father, would punish the young girl by putting her in a dark cupboard.

Full story in Wednesday's Examiner.