A two-year-old girl at the centre of a murder trial has been pictured for the first time.

Roqia Ghulami, 31, and partner Jan Gholami, 32, are accused of killing their adopted daughter Zahra in May 2020.

The child was admitted with serious injuries to the A&E department at Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford on May 27, 2020, during the first Covid lockdown.

Jurors at Maidstone Crown Court have now been shown multiple pictures, including one of the tot, after the pair claimed the child fell down some stairs.

Gholami was photographed taking another of the couple’s children to a nearby Tesco Express, leaving Zahra and her adoptive mother at home in Oak Rod, Gravesend.

He claimed when he returned from the trip, Zahra was discovered with injuries and Ghulami claimed she fell down some stairs.

The court was shown an adoption certificate for Zahra dated July 15, 2017, which had been approved by elders in Afghanistan following the death of her biological mother.

On January 29, 2018, Gholami was granted leave to remain in the UK and a year later Ghulami applied for asylum in the UK.

She was interviewed in January 2019 and told Home Office officials she had three children, including Zahra.

She was helped by the Red Cross, which funded her travel to the UK under a "reunion Visa" scheme and arrived on May 20, 2019.

The jury heard how the charity then made a “request for support” to Kent County Council and she initially lived in Wallis Park, Gravesend.

In February 2020, the family moved to Oak Road just a few weeks before Zahra died.

DC Kerry Adams has now shown video and still images of the family, the inside and outside of their home, and footage of Gholami going to the Tesco store with one of their children.

Previously, prosecutor Sally Howes KC, said: "It is the prosecution's case that he had inflicted those fatal injuries before he left for his shopping trip."

Zahra had been taken to the hospital by Gholami.

Ms Howes told the court: "It was noted immediately by hospital staff she was floppy and unresponsive and her breathing was shallow. Her heart rate was slow and her blood pressure high.

"She had a large swelling to the back of her head.

"I don't know anything about what happened to the child because I was not at home...”

"He told doctors that Zahra had injured herself in an unwitnessed fall down the stairs at home while he was away at a local Tesco.”

The prosecutor claimed that when Gholami was later arrested by police, he produced a receipt from the supermarket.

On May 27, Gholami was arrested and replied: "Why are they taking me to a police station? What have I done? I have enough worries. My child is in a coma.

"I don't know anything about what happened to the child because I was not at home. I was at Tesco. I don't know what happened."

After producing the receipt he added: "I am a Muslim. You can't blame me for these things. There are cameras. Whatever happened I was not at home."

A paediatric consultant, who works at Darent Valley’s A&E department, also told of how Gholami was "keen to show" them a supermarket receipt as doctors were dealing with her injuries.

The two-year-old was at the hospital for two hours before being taken to King's College Hospital in London.

Dr Ali Bokhari added: "When I arrived Zahra was on the couch surrounded by nurses and doctors and her breathing was stopping and starting.

"We asked for the anaesthetic team to come and they took over management of her breathing. She was lying on a bed with a blood stain on a tissue.

"I felt Zahra's head and noticed there was a big swelling to the back of her head.

Dr Bokhari added: "I spoke with the father, Mr Gholami. It was one-to-one. I wanted to know how this injury had come about.

"His English wasn't good. He said he wasn't in the house at the time and he received a call from his wife saying Zahra had a fall.”

Afterwards Farsi-speaking Gholami spoke with the consultant again.

Dr Bokhari said: "As a doctor was helping to translate I went to speak with Gholami again, and Dr Raouf told me he said that he was in Tesco shopping when he received a call from his wife that Zahra had fallen."

The trial continues.