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Father and Stepmother of 10-Year-Old Sara Sharif Found Guilty of Her Murder...Killer Dad And Stepmum to Be Jailed For LIFE For Murder


Sara Sharif Was Doing Her Best to Be a Child While Suffering Years of Abuse

Heartbreaking video showed 10-year-old dancing with visible injuries two days before her father murdered her. It emerges he exploited EU rules to stay in UK

The Guardian 12 DEC 2024





Urfan Sharifs lies unravelled during the trial. The 42-year-old arranged a sham marriage that would permit him to remain in Britain when his visa expired






At first glance, a home video that showed Sara Sharif singing in front of the TV could have been filmed in any happy household. But on closer inspection it was clear that a small chunk of the little girl?s finger was missing and there was a deep scratch to her nose.





Unseen by the lens were the scores of devastating injuries inflicted on Sara during a years-long campaign of abuse by her father, Urfan Sharif, and stepmother, Beinash Batool.

It is heartbreaking to watch, the prosecutor, William Emlyn Jones KC, told jurors at the Old Bailey after they had been shown the footage.

Beaten black and blue under those clothes, with open burn wounds on her buttocks and ankles, she was still doing her best to have fun, still doing her best to be a child. Moving a little awkwardly, looking rather drawn and hollow-cheeked, but alive at that time, just for a little longer.

Sara died two days later. The full extent of her injuries was not discovered until she was found neatly tucked into a bunk bed at her family home in Woking, Surrey, on 10 August 2023.

A postmortem found she had 71 external injuries, including bruises, burns, and human bite marks. She also had at least 25 fractures, including to the hyoid bone in her neck and 11 to her spine from being beaten with a cricket bat, metal pole and mobile phone.





CUNNING






Sharif, 43, and Batool, 30, were found guilty of murder on Wednesday after a seven-week trial that laid bare the brutal violence he meted out on his daughter.




Sharifs brother Faisal Malik, 29, was convicted of causing or allowing the death of a child.




Sara was born on 11 January 2013 and immediately made subject to a child protection plan due to existing concerns about her parents. She was briefly placed into foster care in 2014 and later a refuge after her biological mother, Olga Domin, accused Sharif of domestic abuse.

Sara returned to live with her father after a family court ruling in October 2019.

A happy, bubbly and sometimes sassy child, she was not afraid to answer back, according to her teachers at St Marys primary in West Byfleet. She could be very spirited and quite bold and fierce with what she wanted to say.





She loved to be on stage and singing and performing, that was her kind of happy place, said Helen Simmons, who taught Sara between the ages of eight and 10.





Killer dad and stepmum to be jailed for life for murder of tragic Sara Sharif




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'I hid Sara Sharifs family during international police hunt'


A man armed with an AK-47 assault rifle waves us down an alley.

We?re in a small village in eastern Pakistan, to meet someone who says he can tell us how Sara Sharif?s family managed to hide from police for more than four weeks during an international police hunt.

He was the one who hid them, he tells us.


For nearly a month, police searched for the family of eight - Sara?s father Urfan Sharif, her stepmother Beinash Batool and uncle Faisal Malik, along with five of her siblings.

They had flown to Pakistan on 9 August 2023 - a day before 10-year-old Sara?s battered and lifeless body was found in a bedroom at their home in Woking, Surrey.

Having received a notice from Interpol to locate Sharif, Batool and Malik, police started a high profile search for the family across Pakistan, deploying multiple teams.

They suspected Rasikh Munir, a relative of Urfan Sharifs, of helping them. But during multiple raids on his property, they failed to find the family.

The children were later found at another relatives home. Mr Munir told us that was the moment Sharif, Batool and Malik decided to fly back to England, where they were finally arrested on 13 September 2023.

The BBC has followed the story in Pakistan since the first media reports of Saras death broke.

We met Rasikh Munir before Saras father, uncle and stepmother were put on trial for her murder in London, before the jury heard horrific details of the injuries that Sara had sustained - bite marks, iron burns and injuries caused by hot liquid.

He told us he had believed Sharif was innocent and that he?d taken the family in to protect the children. He also revealed extraordinary details: about how the family had hidden in corn fields when police raided his home at night and how he?d driven them around the local area, buying ice creams and even visiting hairdressers while detectives searched for them.


And remarkably, he said Sharif, Batool and Malik had been hiding in a neighbouring house just metres away from us as we spoke to Saras grandfather shortly after her siblings had been taken away by police




EVIL FAMILY


Police eventually found Saras siblings at their grandfather Muhammad Sharifs home in Jhelum


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