Sanam Navsarka murder trial: Tot put in tumble dryer

Feb 6 2009 Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Injury fears as No Entry signs ignored

LITTLE Sanam Navsarka was put in a tumble dryer and a bin by the partner of her mother, a jury was told.

Zahbeena Navsarka also said she feared her only daughter would be taken into care if officials saw the little girl’s injuries.

During the second day of giving evidence, Navsarka, 21, said that her co-accused Suhban Anwar, put two-year-old Sanam in a dustbin and tumble dryer and took a picture of her.

“I saw her in the dryer and told him to take her out but he said ‘let me take a picture first’,” she said.

“One time he pressed on her knees – she was trying to bite her arm in pain. I told him to stop but he wouldn't.”

Navsarka described the tot as “my life” but admitted she failed to spot the large amount of injuries she had.

Both Navsarka and Anwar, 21, of Riddings Road, Deighton, deny murder. Anwar denies causing or allowing the death of a child.

But Navsarka admits failing to protect her daughter, saying the basis of her guilty plea was because she knows she failed prevent significant harm being caused to Sanam by, she alleges, Anwar.

Speaking about the final hours of Sanam’s life, Navsarka told Bradford Crown Court said that Anwar wanted to give the toddler a bath.

He shouted to her that Sanam was having a fit and when she looked she saw that Sanam’s eyes were wide. Navsarka put her hand in the bath water than placed her fingers on Sanam’s eyes. She said moments later the little girl was ok.

But she never saw her daughter alive again.