On Thursday, a British court confirmed long prison terms delivered to the parents and the uncle imprisoned for killing a British-Pakistani girl, after subjecting her to years of abuse.
Sara Sharif’s father, 10, Urfan Sharif, her stepmother, Beinash Batool and her uncle lost appeal offers to reduce their sentences.
The court also rejected a plea of the Office of the Attorney General to impose a more rigid life sentence in Sharif.
The Sharif and Batool trial caused repulsion waves in the United Kingdom as the horrible abuse suffered by the 10 -year -old girl was revealed in a London court.
There was also anger in how the young and brilliant and bubbly had been failed by all the authorities who were supposed to be in charge of their care.
The former London Bailey Court heard that his body was found in his bed in August 2023 covered with bites and bruises with broken bones and burns inflicted by an electric iron and boiling water.
Presenting a sentence in December after the trial, Judge John Cavanagh said that Sara had undergone “acts of extreme cruelty”, but that Sharif and Batool had not shown “a pinch of remorse.”
They had treated Sara as “useless” and as “a skivvy”, because she was a girl. And because she was not the natural baby girl, the stepmother could not protect her, she said. “This poor child was mistreated with great force over and over again.”
‘More distressing case’
Sara’s father, 43, was sentenced to 40 years in prison, while her stepmother, 30, received the order to remain in jail for at least 33 years.
Both now appeal their terms in the royal courts of justice, together with Sara’s uncle, Faisal Malik, 29, who lived with the family and was sentenced to 16 years after being convicted of causing or allowing her death.
The attorney general, Lucy Rigby, appealed the sentence imposed on Urfan Sharif, maintaining that she was “excessively indulgent.”
A post -mortem examination of Sara’s body revealed that she had 71 fresh wounds and at least 25 broken bones.
They had hit it with a metal post and a Crick -Mat and “with truck” with a “grotesque combination of package tape, a rope and a plastic bag” on its head. A hole was cut in the bag so that they could breathe, and left it to the ground in diapers, since it was prevented from using the bathroom.
Police described the case as “one of the most difficult and distressing” with which they had to deal with.
The day after Sara’s death, the three adults fled her house in Woking, southwest London, and flew to Pakistan with five other children.
His father, a taxi driver, left a handwritten note that said he did not intend to kill his daughter. After a month in the race, the three returned to the United Kingdom and were arrested after landing. The other five children remain in Pakistan.
Social services have lost the anger that Sara’s brutal treatment was lost by social services after her father withdrew her from school four months before she died. Sharif and his first wife, Olga, were known for social services.
In 2019, a judge decided to grant Sara’s care and her older brother to Sharif, despite her history of abuse.
The school had given the alarm about Sara’s case three times, particularly after she reached the class with a Hijab that used to cover marks on her body that refused to explain.
Since December, the Government has moved to adjust the rules on home education.
Sara’s body was repatriated to Poland, where her mother is and where a funeral was organized.
