LITTLE Sanam Navsarka was left alone and in pain on the day of her death – while her mum and partner went to register themselves with a doctor.

A jury at Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday, (Jan 14), that the two-year-old was alone for up to two hours at her home in Riddings Road, Deighton, on May 8 last year.

Her mother, Zahbeena Navsarka and her partner, Subhan Anwar, had gone to register with a GP, while the little girl lay close to death from more than 100 injuries they are alleged to have inflicted on her.

Navsarka and Anwar, both 21, both deny murder.

Anwar denies a charge of causing or allowing the death of a child. Navsarka has admitted an alternative charge of failing to protect Sanam.

But prosecutor Julian Goose QC told the jury both were responsible for Sanam’s murder.

He 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."

It was not until the evening of May 8 that Anwar rang 999, claiming Sanam was not breathing after being left alone in the bath for 10 minutes.

The couple claimed they had found Sanam underwater.

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

"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."

It is alleged that Anwar even filmed a mobile phone video of her having a convulsion, caused by her injuries.

The jury was shown footage of Sanam taken on a mobile telephone.

The first clip, filmed on April 25 2008, showed Sanam, with her dark hair in pigtails, as "a normal two-year-old child".

Mr Goose said a later clip, filmed in the days before her death, showed Sanam having a convulsion.

He said: "Mr Anwar used the mobile telephone to film Sanam as she was in clear and obvious distress."

Family members raised awareness of the tot’s condition, but the prosecution claim that her mother Navsarka, and her partner Anwar, failed to do anything to protect the tot.

Navsarka’s sister Marriya Zaman said she saw bruises on the toddler’s forehead and legs in the weeks before Sanam’s death last May.

She also told the jury at Bradford Crown Court that she saw the tot being put in a cupboard by Anwar.

The 19-year-old recounted a trip to Tesco with the two defendants and Sanam.

She said: "Sanam was crying and he (Anwar) put his hand over her mouth to stop her crying.

"She was crying again and he did it for longer... she couldn’t breathe.

"I got her out of the trolley and told Zahbeena that he shouldn’t do that and she said, "I know."

Mr Goose finishing his opening statement, said: "Sanam died as a result of really serious injuries, deliberately inflicted upon her, over a period of up to four weeks before her death.

"It was not over a short period of time, it was not unexpected or unpredictable.

"It was over a long time as they both watched that two-year-old little girl in severe pain deteriorate until she died.

"The defendants either inflicted that violence upon her together or one encouraged the other, standing by and doing nothing over all those weeks whilst she was being repeatedly assaulted and severely injured."

Sanam was said to have had injuries to all of her major limbs when she died on May 8 last year.

Mr Goose continued: "The conduct of the defendants, together, when they saw her deteriorate was from a normal, happy child to one in severe pain, unable to walk and suffering regular fits."

Tiny handprints and bloodstains were found inside a self-locking cupboard at the Deighton home and also at the Batley flat.

Anwar, who is not Sanam’s father, admitted after his arrest that he put Sanam in the cupboard as a punishment but said Navsarka punished her in the same way.

When Navsarka was told of her daughter’s 107 injuries by police, she made no comment.

One of injuries included a severe nappy rash which the couple treated by spraying aftershave onto open and bleeding sores.

The trial continues.

A MOTHER accused of murdering her two-year-old daughter was described as "sweet and caring" by her best friend.

Witness Shereen Yacoobali told a jury at Bradford Crown Court that Zahbeena Navsarka did not have it in her heart to hurt toddler Sanam, who died on May 8 last year.

Navsarka stands accused of the tot’s murder, along with her partner Subhan Anwar, both from Riddings Road, Deighton.

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

During the second day of the trial at Bradford Crown Court yesterday(Jan 14), Ms Yacoobali, a mother-of-two, said she had trusted Navsarka.

But they drifted apart when Anwar came on the scene and "began to take over", just before Navsarka and Anwar moved from Batley to Deighton around April 1 last year.

She also recounted hearing Anwar threaten the toddler when she was being mischievous.

Ms Yacoobali told the court: "If Sanam was being naughty she (Navsarka) wouldn’t tell her off, she’d be really sweet and say ‘no don’t do that’ – they’d have a giggle together.

"She wouldn’t ever hit her, she hasn’t got it in her heart to do that.

"I saw a change in her (Navsarka) when that guy (Anwar) came along. She was quite distant afterwards."

Around two months before little Sanam died, Ms Yacoobali recounted a time when she heard Anwar threaten her.

"She was running in the hallway and I think she was trying to get into my bedroom.

"He was on my phone to the Job Centre about something and Zahbeena said, ‘Come here’ but Sanam was happily running about.

"He then said to her "I’ll lock you up in the cupboard, stop it".

"She stopped in fear and I can smell fear when I see it and I saw her scared and she ran quickly to her mum. I asked Zahbeena about the cupboard and she said "Oh, he locks her in the cupboard when we’re at home.

"I said ‘Why do you let him do that?’ And she said it was when Sanam was being naughty."

Ms Yacoobali had known Navsarka since they were teenagers. They became close when she moved into a flat opposite, when Navsarka became pregnant and ran away from her family.

She changed her name from Zaman to Navsarka, the name she wrongly thought was Sanam’s estranged father’s surname.

Ms Yacoobali helped to deliver little Sanam when Navsarka went into labour at her flat at Howley Walk, Batley. She was among the first to hold the baby.

The two women continued to be close during the first two years of Sanam’s life, often looking after each other’s children and sharing motherly advice.

But by March 2008, when Navsarka met Anwar, she said they became more distant.

They couple had met at a mobile phone shop in Batley and Anwar asked for her number.

A few weeks later he had moved into her flat and Ms Yacoobali said she believed Anwar had a control over Navsarka.

Anwar was married at the time and his wife was pregnant, though it was some weeks before he told Navsarka about it.

Navsarka and Anwar then moved into their Deighton home with little Sanam, where it is alleged she was locked in a cupboard and suffered bruising and cuts to her body over a period of time.

The trial continues.