Systematic abuse caused 107 injuries to Sanam Navsarka

Feb 12 2009 by Neil Atkinson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

FOR the first two years of her life Sanam was a relatively happy and healthy child.

She attended creche and was able to walk, talk and play with other toddlers.

Though her development was slower than that of other children, she had no major problems.

Everything changed after Navsarka met Anwar in February 2008.

During the next two months she was subjected to the systematic abuse that would eventually cut her life so brutally short.

A pathologist counted 107 external injuries on the body of Sanam Navsarka during her postmortem.

In addition, there were breaks to her arms and, more significantly, her legs.

Her fight forearm was broken in two places two to four weeks before her death. It was not treated and, the prosecution said, would have caused serious pain.

There was evidence of a break and a suspected break to her left arm having taken place during the same time period. Again they were untreated.

But it was the fractures to her legs that would cause the fat embolisms that eventually killed her. The most obvious evidence of the trauma she had been subjected to was a tramline bruise on her left leg.

Beneath the injury was the untreated break, probably less than a week old.