A senior coroner has ordered Surrey County Council to disclose more than 24,000 documents as part of the inquest into the death of 10-year-old Sara Sharif.
Senior coroner Richard Travers issued the demand at a pre-inquest review hearing on Thursday, stating he requires "all of the pages" by October 2.
Travers warned that he would summon the local authority's chief executive, Terence Herbert, to appear before the court if the documents are not provided. The coroner expressed confusion regarding the council's apparent reluctance to hand over the files.
Sara Sharif was found dead at her family home in Woking. Her father, Urfan Sharif, and stepmother, Beinash Batool, were convicted of murder in 2024 and sentenced to life in prison.
The inquest, originally scheduled for April, has been postponed by six months and is now slated to begin in October 2027. The eight-week proceeding will investigate what state agencies knew, or should have known, about Sara's safety prior to her death.
Alethea Redfern, representing Surrey County Council, had argued against the full disclosure, contending that a significant portion of the documents were irrelevant to the inquest.