A 10-year-old girl was subjected to years of torture by her father and stepmother before she was murdered.
Sara Sharif’s cruel father and stepmum have been jailed for life for her murder. The 10-year-old suffered years of torture at the hands of dad Urfan Sharif, 42, who regularly battered her with a cricket bat, metal pole and phone – even as she lay dying. He also recruited his wife Beinash Batool, 30, to help him carry out the violence, with Sara often restrained with packaging tape and makeshift hoods throughout the twisted bouts of punishments.
She had suffered more than 25 broken bones, iron burns on her bottom, scalding marks to her feet, and human bites during a campaign of abuse spanning at least two years. ‘The degree of cruelty involved is almost inconceivable’, Mr Justice John Cavanagh said in his sentencing remarks. ‘This happened in plain sight, in front of the rest of the family.’ Her uncle, Faisal Malik, 29, who lived with them, was convicted of causing or allowing her death after a jury deliberated for nine hours and 46 minutes. All three – who flew to Pakistan leaving Sara’s battered and broken body under the pink duvet on her bunk bed at their Surrey home – were sentenced at the Old Bailey today. Sara loved to sing and play guitar. Sara Sharif’s mother Olga Sharif described her killers as ‘sadists’ and ‘cowards’. In a victim impact statement read to the court by prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones KC, she said: ‘Sara was always smiling. She had her own unique character. The only thing I had left to give to my daughter was to give her a beautiful Catholic funeral that she deserves. ‘She is now an angel who looks down on us from heaven, she is no longer experiencing violence. To this day, I can’t understand how someone can be such a sadist to a child.’ Addressing the defendants in the dock, she said: ‘You are sadists although even this word is not enough for you
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