Jurors have seen video of the 10-year-old Sara Sharif's stepmother telling police, "I think you're looking for us," as police boarded an aircraft to apprehend the suspected murderers.

Officers' cameras recorded the exchange, which was shown in court during their prosecution.

It depicts Beinash Batool, 30, waiting for police to come on the plane while seated next to Sara's father, Urfan Sharif, 42. The video then shows cops arresting them shortly after. Faisal Malik, Sara's 29-year-old uncle, was also taken into custody.

At the Old Bailey, all three are on trial for murder and causing or permitting a child's death.

Sara’s body was found in a bunk bed by Surrey police on 10 August after Sharif called from Pakistan to say he had beaten her “too much” for being “naughty”. He had left a handwritten “confession” near her fully clothed body saying: “I swear to God that my intention was not to kill her. But I lost it.”

Jurors previously heard she had suffered dozens of injuries, and had been hooded, burned, beaten and bitten during more than two years of abuse, culminating in her death at the family home in Woking, Surrey, on 8 August.

Batool, Sharif and Malik flew to Pakistan the next day.

The arrests came the evening they travelled back to the UK on 13 September, arriving at Gatwick airport on a flight from Dubai. Seven minutes after the plane touched down, the footage shows police arrived to detain them.

At one point, an apparently unruffled Batool hands over her handbag to an officer and tells him that Sharif has a cabin bag onboard the plane.

All three defendants deny the charges. The trial continues.