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Police in Pakistan have said they are under 'tremendous pressure' from the British High Commission to find missing family members of murdered ten-year-old Sara Sharif.

Sara's father, Malik Urfan Sharif, 41, his partner Beinash Batool, 29, and Urfan's brother, Faisal Malik, 28, fled the UK a daybefore the girl's body was discovered at the family home in the Horsell area of Surrey.

All three are now wanted for questioning over Sara's murder.

Last week, Surrey Police revealed that Sara's body was discovered on August 10th after Mr Sharif called them from Pakistan, which led police to search the £500,000 family council house.

Although post-mortem tests could not determine the cause of death, the results revealed bruises on her body which showed the little girl 'had suffered multiple and extensive injuries, which are likely to have been caused over a sustained and extended period of time.'

Mr Sharif, a local taxi driver in Surrey, originally comes from Jhelum, in the Punjab region in North-West Pakistan, where police fear he has returned with his partner and brother.

Last week, Imran Sharif, one of Mr Sharif's brothers in Jhelum, revealed that his fugitive brother did visit the family home once on his own since returning to Pakistan, but left shortly afterwards. He denied knowing his suspect brother's whereabouts.

Last night, Malik Imran, the investigating officer at Jhelum's Saddar Police station, which is coordinating the investigation, said: 'We are facing tremendous pressure from the authorities to find the location of Urfan Sharif.

'The British High Commission in Islamabad is pressuring us to find [Urfan Sharif] immediately, or they will send their own investigators.'

He added: 'We have been told to find out his location. But, how can we find the location as we believe he is not carrying any gadgets [mobile phones] through which we could locate him.'

Separately, Sara's mother, Polish woman Olga Sharif, 36, who was married to Mr Sharif between 2009 to 2017, urged her ex-husband to 'come forward and explain himself.'

Olga, who lives in Somerset, praised British police for doing a good job in trying to track him down.

She said: 'The police are doing a good job finding him.'

Heartbroken Ms Sharif praised her daughter as 'an amazing child,' adding: 'She was so beautiful. I can't believe she's dead.'

Ms Sharif hopes to bury her child back in her native Poland.

Detective Superintendent Mark Chapman, from the Surrey Police and Sussex Police Major Crime Team, said: 'We now know that Sara had suffered multiple and extensive injuries over a sustained and extended period which has significantly changed the nature of our investigation, and we have widened the timescale of the focus of our enquiry.

'As a result, we are trying to piece together a picture of Sara's lifestyle but we cannot do this without the public's help.

'That is why we are appealing for anyone who knew Sara, had any form of contact with her, or has any other information about her, no matter how insignificant it might seem, to come forward as soon as possible.'

 
British and Pakistani police need to work together. This evil man will be caught and handed over to police authorities

British Police needs to hand over some crooks loitering around at Avonsfield with nothing better to do with their lives as well.
 
It would be better if we just keep on the topic and post our point of view, instead of trying to hurt or provoke anger someone.
 
Pakistani police should learn from this and ask themselves why British police are applying tremendous pressure to find a British suspect in Pakistan. If Pakistani police applied the same pressure to themselves to find Pakistani suspects of similar crimes, the nation would be a step closer to becoming a better place to live.
 
It's not easy. I have known of cases where a murderer from the UK has run away and not be found in the backwaters of Punjab. Hopefully justice is done and they are caught but its unlikely
 
Last week, Imran Sharif, one of Mr Sharif's brothers in Jhelum, revealed that his fugitive brother did visit the family home once on his own since returning to Pakistan, but left shortly afterwards. He denied knowing his suspect brother's whereabouts.
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Oh yes, I'm sure his brother doesn't know where he is!

Hope they find this guy and he gets his deserved punishment.
 
Pakistan police arrest Sara Sharif's uncle on suspicion he knows where the murdered girl's family are hiding since fleeing Britain.

Police in Pakistan have arrested an uncle of Sara Sharif because they suspect he knows where her father, stepmother and another uncle, all wanted over her murder, are hiding.

Urfan Sharif fled the UK with his partner Beinash Batool, brother Faisal Malik and his five children - a day before police discovered Sara's body at the family home in Woking, Surrey.

The three adults are wanted for questioning over Sara's murder, leading to an international manhunt.

Sara was found at the property on August 10 by police who received a call from someone concerned by her welfare.

An autopsy has not established a cause of death, but it did show Sara had suffered 'multiple and extensive injuries, which are likely to have been caused over a sustained and extended period of time', Surrey police said.


Daily Mail
 
Sara Sharif: Girl, 10, found dead at Woking home 'fell down stairs and broke her neck', uncle claims

Sara's uncle, Imran Sharif, is currently held in police custody for questioning, Jhelum police have exclusively told Sky News.

The brother of a man wanted over the death of his 10-year-old daughter told officers Sara Sharif "fell down the stairs and broke her neck", according to police in Pakistan.

Sara's uncle, Imran Sharif, is currently held in police custody for questioning, Jhelum police have exclusively told Sky News.

He has not been charged and is not under arrest, they said.

However, Mr Sharif is assisting police in finding his brother Urfan, who he claims he hasn't seen.

Sara Sharif' was discovered at her home in Woking, Surrey, after police were called from Pakistan by her father on 10 August.

The 41-year-old man, his partner Beinash Batool, 29, and his 28-year-old brother Faisal Malik are thought to have travelled from the UK to Islamabad the day before - and are wanted for questioning.

Sara's exact cause of death remains unknown.

However, Surrey Police said a post-mortem revealed Sara "suffered multiple and extensive injuries", which they said were "likely to have been caused over a sustained and extended period of time".

Surrey County Council have also said Sara was previously known to authorities.

Pakistani police are seeking to arrest Urfan Sharif, who travelled to the country with Beinash Batool and Faisal Malik as well as five children ranging from one to 13 years old.

It is believed Urfan briefly returned to his family home in Jhelum, Punjab - about 84 miles (134km) away from the capital.

Imran Sharif denied knowing where Urfan and his family were, Jhelum police said.

He told police: "I found out what happened to Sara through the international media.

"My parents told me Urfan briefly came home very upset. He kept saying 'they' are going to take his children away from him."

"They", an officer said, referred to British authorities.

According to Jhelum police, Imran Sharif claims the family line is that Sara had an accident at home.

He is alleged to have told officers: "Beinash was home with the children. Sara fell down the stairs and broke her neck. Beinash panicked and phoned Urfan."

Beinash Batool's family home in Mirpur was searched, but the family of eight was nowhere to be seen, Jhelum police told Sky News.

They added that Urfan's parents are distressed, and that his father's "heart condition" is worsening from "stress".
 
So if it was an accident falling down the stairs why run away abroad.
 
I'm sure the local police will have ways to make the uncle talk.

Old fashioned method incoming.
 
Sara Sharif death: Girl seen with injuries at school - neighbour

A 10-year-old girl was seen in school with cuts and bruises to her face months before she was found dead at her home, a neighbour has said.

The woman learned about the injuries to Sara Sharif from her own daughter, who was one of the girl's classmates.

Sara's father, his brother and his partner flew to Pakistan before Sara was found in Woking, Surrey, on 10 August.

Post-mortem tests found Sara sustained "multiple and extensive injuries".

The former neighbour, who asked only to be identified as Jessica, told the BBC Sara had been a happy and confident child who always skipped to school.

But after Sara was found dead, Jessica's daughter told her mother that in April Sara had gone to St Mary's primary school in Byfleet with clearly visible injuries.

"Just before the Easter holidays she was in school and had cuts and bruises on her face and her neck," Jessica said.

"My daughter had asked what had happened and she said she'd fallen off a bike and then kind of walked away.

"The next day the teacher announced she had left school and she was being home-schooled."

She said it was about that time that the Sharif family moved to Woking, about a 20-minute drive away.

Jessica said she never saw Sara at the school again and neighbours in Woking also said they did not see the child go to school.
 
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Sara Sharif death: Girl seen with injuries at school - neighbour

A 10-year-old girl was seen in school with cuts and bruises to her face months before she was found dead at her home, a neighbour has said.

The woman learned about the injuries to Sara Sharif from her own daughter, who was one of the girl's classmates.

Sara's father, his brother and his partner flew to Pakistan before Sara was found in Woking, Surrey, on 10 August.

Post-mortem tests found Sara sustained "multiple and extensive injuries".

The former neighbour, who asked only to be identified as Jessica, told the BBC Sara had been a happy and confident child who always skipped to school.

But after Sara was found dead, Jessica's daughter told her mother that in April Sara had gone to St Mary's primary school in Byfleet with clearly visible injuries.

"Just before the Easter holidays she was in school and had cuts and bruises on her face and her neck," Jessica said.

"My daughter had asked what had happened and she said she'd fallen off a bike and then kind of walked away.

"The next day the teacher announced she had left school and she was being home-schooled."

She said it was about that time that the Sharif family moved to Woking, about a 20-minute drive away.

Jessica said she never saw Sara at the school again and neighbours in Woking also said they did not see the child go to school.
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Why did the school never report the injuries to authorities? Not sure about the system in UK, but here in US schools are obligatory reporters for any suspicious injury to CPS or Police.

Poor kid could have been saved. Heartbreaking, she was a beautiful child
 
With Pakistan police involved, this has all the hallmarks of a botch-up and the suspect running off for good.
 
Murder in UK: Jhelum police vow to arrest Sara Sharif's father by 'tomorrow night'

Pakistan police on Sunday said that they will arrest Sara Sharif's father — who is on a run after his 10-year-old daughter was found dead at home in the UK — by tomorrow night, The Daily Mirror reported.

The police are tracking a mobile phone SIM card that belongs to Urfan and is being "actively used".

"With God’s will we will make the arrest by tomorrow night," Jhelum police chief Nasir Bajwa said.

The police have so far questioned Urfan's father, brother and uncle.

Rawalpindi's senior police officer Khurram Ali — who is currently leading the search — told the Mail on Sunday: "We have traced a mobile phone SIM card which is registered under the name of Urfan Sharif and is being actively used by someone in Jhelum."


The News
 
The grandfather of a 10-year-old girl found dead at home in Woking has urged his fugitive son to hand himself in.

The body of Sara Sharif was found at a property on Hammond Road after her father called police from Pakistan on 10 August.

Speaking to the Sunday Times, Muhammad Sharif urged his son Urfan, 41, his son’s partner, Beinash Batool, 29, and Urfan’s brother Faisal Malik, 28, to hand themselves in to police.

The trio are thought to have travelled to Islamabad on 9 August and are wanted for questioning. They travelled with five children aged between one and 13, police said.

Muhammad Sharif, 68, said his son had briefly visited the family home in the city of Jhelum, Punjab province, this month before he disappeared again.

Guardian
 
Sara Sharif's father, step mum and uncle 'one step ahead' of Pakistan police.

Three suspects wanted in connection with the death of a 10-year-old girl are using media reports to avoid being found, police in Pakistan have said.

They flew on one-way tickets, and police discovered her body after Mr Sharif called police from Pakistan’s capital city, Islamabad.

The local council said Sara was known to social services, and she had reportedly been seen with cuts and bruises months before her death.

Pakistan police have now said the trio are ‘one step ahead’ of them, the Telegraph reports.

 
Pakistan police said they are widening the search for the family of a 10-year-old girl found dead at her Surrey home.

Detectives launched an international manhunt after Sara Sharif's body was discovered by police at an address in Hammond Road, Woking, on 10 August.

Her father Urfan, his partner and his brother, had travelled to Pakistan the previous day.

An inquest into Sara's death is due to open at Woking Coroner's Court on Tuesday.

Pakistan police told the BBC they had expanded the search to two more areas around the city of Jhelum - taking the total to four areas, having received new information from multiple sources.

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Police have widened the search for Sara Sharif’s dad in Pakistan following a tip off.

An international manhunt is underway for Urfan, his partner Beinash Batool, and Sara’s uncle Faisal Malik.

The search has been expanded to two more areas around the city of Jhelum where they believe Urfan may be hiding near, according to the BBC.

It takes the total to four areas after police received new tip offs from multiple sources.

An inquest held into her death opened at Surrey Coroner’s Court today, said the precise cause of Sara’s death is ‘not yet ascertained’ but is likely to be ‘unnatural’.

A previous post-mortem revealed she suffered ‘multiple and extensive injuries which are likely to have been caused over a sustained and extended period of time’.

Investigators from the National Crime Agency and Interpol have been working in unison with one another to track Urfan down.

The day before Sara was found dead, it is understood Urfan fled Islamabad with Beinash and Faisal.

It is understood Urfan briefly returned to his family home in Jhelum, according to Pakistan’s police.

Sara’s mum said: ‘Urfan’s days on the run are numbered.

‘Until he is arrested I can’t have any sense of closure or security over what happened to my daughter.

‘They are going to catch up with them soon.’

Sara’s uncle claimed the little girl died by falling down the stairs, claims Sara’s mum has denied.

Police are not looking for anyone else in connection with Sara’s death.

 
Police in Pakistan say they did not receive a request to search for the family of Sara Sharif until five days after her body was found in the UK.

They say the request was via Interpol. Surrey police have not said when they asked Interpol for the search to start.

According to new details the BBC has been told about the Pakistan investigation, police now believe they were staying with family in Pakistan until early on 13 August. After this date, the police say they don't know where they went in the country.


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Sara Sharif: Fugitive stepmother of girl who was found dead in Woking urged to hand herself in by relative.

A relative of Sara Sharif's stepmother has urged her to return to the UK and hand herself in to the police.

Police want to speak to Sara's father Urfan Sharif along with his partner Beinash Batool and his brother Faisal Shahzad Malik.

All three are believed to have travelled from the UK to Pakistan the day before Sara's body was discovered.

A cousin of Ms Batool has now urged her to "come back to the UK" and hand herself in to the police.

It is the first time anyone from Ms Batool's family has spoken to the media.

Speaking to Sky News, the relative, who asked not to be named, said: "Beinash should come back to the UK.

"I don't know where she is. But I'm worried about her. I'm worried about her kids.

"She should come back to the UK, go to the police and tell them exactly what happened."

She added: "I don't know - my family don't know - what happened. It could have been an accident; a misunderstanding."

Ms Batool's cousin - who is originally from the city of Gujrat in Pakistan - said Ms Batool was estranged from her parents, having eloped to marry Mr Sharif.

"The relationship [with her family] is finished," the relative added.

"She married secretly, and her father said, 'she is not my daughter'.

"She hasn't spoken to her parents since."

news.sky.com

Sara Sharif: Fugitive stepmother of girl who was found dead in Woking urged to hand herself in by relative

Sara's father Urfan Sharif along with his partner Beinash Batool and his brother Faisal Shahzad Malik are believed to have left the UK for Pakistan before Sara's body was discovered.
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Sara Sharif's taxi driver father 'asked local businessman for tickets for one-way flight to Pakistan just HOURS before calling Surrey police from abroad telling them ten-year-old girl was.

The father of 10-year-old Sara Sharif, who was found dead at home in Woking after her whole family fled to Pakistan, contacted a friend who owned a money transfer shop to get eight last-minute plane tickets before they left the country.

Taxi driver Urfan Sharif, 41, told Nadeem Riaz on August 8 he urgently needed the one way tickets due to the death of a cousin and needed to fly out to Islamabad as soon as possible.

Sara was left behind. She was already dead.

After arriving in Pakistan Sharif phoned 999 and informed police they would find the body of his oldest daughter at their address in Horsell. She was discovered with 'multiple and extensive' injuries which are believed to have occurred over a 'sustained and extended' period of time.

 
Pak police can't find locals who do such things let alone an entire family that flee the UK after killing the child.

Such is that guy that he even called the Met from Islamabad that the girl has died.
 
This is getting embarrassing now for the Pak police.

About time they found this lot!
 
What kind of monsters murder their own child? If true, they should be made an example out of.
 
Deewana Mastana said:
Pak police can't find locals who do such things let alone an entire family that flee the UK after killing the child.

Such is that guy that he even called the Met from Islamabad that the girl has died.
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Pak police wouldn't bother to find locals who do such things, the only reason they are bothering with this case is because the British authorities have given them the order.
 
Cpt. Rishwat said:
Pak police wouldn't bother to find locals who do such things, the only reason they are bothering with this case is because the British authorities have given them the order.
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Spot on. Pak police like all other institutions wont get up on their backsides unless you hand them some rupees under the table.

However when their masters in forces and government orders them, they are happy to beat, arrest and torture women, children and elderly.
 
Sara Sharif's family being 'harassed' by police, says grandfather.

Muhammad Sharif's son Urfan is being pursued by police after he is believed to have travelled to Pakistan the day before his daughter's body was discovered at her home in Woking.

The grandfather of Sara Sharif has urged his son to "present himself" to police and give his "point of view" following the 10-year-old girl's death.

Muhammad Sharif also said his family is being "harassed" by police who have taken his family members into custody.

Police want to speak to Muhammad Sharif's son Urfan Sharif, as well as his partner Beinash Batool and his brother Faisal Shahzad Malik, after Sara was found dead at her home in Woking, Surrey, on 10 August.

Officers believe Urfan Sharif, 41, along with Ms Batool, 29, Mr Malik, 28, and five children aged between one and 13, travelled to Pakistan's capital Islamabad the day before Sara's body was discovered.

Muhammad Sharif, 68, told Sky News: "We appeal to the police to release my family members.

"I have tried my best to contact Urfan and ask him to present himself and give his point of view."

Muhammad Sharif had earlier told The Sunday Times his son had briefly visited the family home in Jhelum, Punjab province, in August.

A post-mortem last month revealed Sara had "suffered multiple and extensive injuries" that were "likely to have been caused over a sustained and extended period of time".

Her cause of death has yet to be determined - but an inquest has heard it is "likely to be unnatural".

She was previously known to authorities, according to Surrey County Council, while Surrey Police said they had "limited and historic contact" with Sara's family.

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Sara Sharif's family being 'harassed' by police, says grandfather

Muhammad Sharif's son Urfan is being pursued by police after he is believed to have travelled to Pakistan the day before his daughter's body was discovered at her home in Woking.
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Sara Sharif’s stepmum and dad have released a strange video in what is their first public statement since the young girl’s death.

In a video shared with Sky News this morning Beinash Batool, 29, read a statement from a notebook while Urfan Sharif, 41, remained silent.

She showed no emotion as she declared Sara’s death ‘an incident’ and that she and Mr Sharif are willing to cooperate with UK authorities.

‘Firstly I would like to talk about Sara. Sara’s death was an incident. Our family in Pakistan is severely affected by all that is going on,’ she said.

‘All the media have been given wrong statements and making up lies [one of Mr Sharif’s brothers] did not give a statement that Sara fell down the stairs and broke her neck. This was spread through a Pakistani media outlet. I am very worried about Imran’s safety.

‘All of our family members have gone into hiding as everyone is scared for their safety. The kids are unable to attend school as they are afraid to leave the house. No one is leaving the house.

‘The groceries have run out and there is no food for the kids as the adults are unable to leave their homes out of fear of safety. That is why we have gone into hiding.

Sara Sharif’s mum has also described the grief after having to identify her daughter’s swollen, bruised body in the mortuary.

She previously urged Mr Sharif and Ms Batool to come forward, and said ‘life will never be the same’ after the death of Sara.

She has also slammed claims from Mr Sharif’s brother, Imran, that her daughter fell down the stairs and broke her neck, saying: ’If there was an accident you don’t leave the country in secret.’

 
Sara Sharif's grandmother reveals harrowing details of 10-year-old's injuries

Sara Sharif’s grandmother has told of the harrowing moment she saw her badly disfigured granddaughter in a morgue and couldn’t recognise her.

The exact nature of Sara’s injuries have not been fully disclosed, though Sara’s mum, Olga, described severe bruising and swelling on her daughter’s face when she went to identify her.

Speaking to Polish broadcaster TVN on Wednesday, Sara’s grandmother, Sylwia Kurz, said: ‘It wasn’t Sara [anymore], she was entirely changed and bruised.

‘If someone hadn’t told me it was Sara, I would have never believed it.’
 
Sara Sharif: Pakistan court moves siblings to government childcare facility

A judge in Pakistan has ruled Sara Sharif's siblings, who travelled from the UK with her father, should be sent to a government childcare facility.

The five children were found at the home of their grandfather in Jhelum, north-eastern Pakistan.

On Tuesday, a court ruled Sara's five siblings should be sent to a Pakistan government childcare facility temporarily.

The ruling did not state how long the children may be kept in the government facility for. It also does not determine where the children will ultimately be sent.


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Father and step mother on the plane back to the UK. I hope justice is done and we get to the truth about this horrific crime. What is also interesting is how much little power the PK state has. Afterall NS has been on the run in the UK for 4 years and the British govt looked after him like a mafia leader. There was no UK police case to send him back
 
Bewal Express said:
Father and step mother on the plane back to the UK. I hope justice is done and we get to the truth about this horrific crime. What is also interesting is how much little power the PK state has. Afterall NS has been on the run in the UK for 4 years and the British govt looked after him like a mafia leader. There was no UK police case to send him back
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Yeah, good point. Might is right, I suppose. It reminds me a bit of that scene from Games of Thones
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The father, stepmother and uncle of Sara Sharif, 10, have been arrested on suspicion of murder after returning to the UK from Pakistan.

The trio were arrested at Gatwick Airport at around 19:45 BST after disembarking a flight from Dubai, Surrey Police said.

They are in custody and will be interviewed in due course, police said.

Sara's body was found at the home she shared with the three adults in Woking on 10 August.

The three adults left the UK for Pakistan the day before police found Sara's body.

A post-mortem examination found she had sustained multiple and extensive injuries.

Sara's mother has been informed of the latest development, police said.

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Trio appears in UK court flanked by police officer.

The court hearing came after the three were arrested on Wednesday after disembarking a flight from Dubai after spending a month in the south Asian country.

The three appeared in the dock at a magistrates' court in Guildford, southern England, flanked by police officers.They spoke only to confirm their names, dates of birth and addresses.

All three have also been charged with causing or allowing the death of a child, Surrey Police said earlier in a statement. No pleas to any of the charges were entered during the short hearing.

Deputy Chief Magistrate Tan Ikram remanded the defendants in custody. Their next court appearance will be at London's Old Bailey on Tuesday.


Tribune
 
Sara Sharif's father will face trial for her murder next year after a court heard the 10-year-old suffered a "constellation" of injuries culminating in her death.

Urfan Sharif allegedly fled the UK to Pakistan with Sara's stepmother Beinash Batool and his brother Faisal Malik the day before her body was found in Woking, Surrey, on 10 August.

They are alleged to have travelled with five children who cannot be named for legal reasons.

Sharif, 41, Batool, 29, and Malik, 28, appeared at the Old Bailey in London today following their return from Pakistan on Wednesday 13 September.

They were arrested at Gatwick Airport.

All three are charged with murdering Sara and causing or allowing the death of a child.

A six-week trial at the Old Bailey was provisionally set to start on 2 September 2024.

Judge Mark Lucraft KC, the Recorder of London, said a plea hearing will take place on 1 December this year.

Mr Bedloe alleged: "It follows Sara had been subjected to multiple events of violence over a sustained period of time that must have culminated in her death."

He added: "There is quite a significant amount of post-mortem work ongoing and that will continue."

Sharif, Batool and Malik appeared at the Old Bailey by video-link from Belmarsh high-security jail in south London and Bronzefield women's prison in Surrey today.

They spoke only to confirm their identities and dates of birth before a timetable was set for their case.

Judge Lucraft said a decision will be made later on whether the trial should be heard by a High Court judge.

The defendants were all remanded into custody until their next hearing.


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Sara Sharif's father given murder trial date as court hears girl suffered a 'constellation' of injuries

A prosecutor has told the Old Bailey how Sara was found with injuries including multiple rib fractures, bruising to her torso and limbs and a brain haemorrhage.
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Gets worse and worse.

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From SKY:

Fresh images have been released of Sara Sharif as police continue their appeal for information following her death.

The 10-year-old's body was found at the family home in Woking on 10 August.

The photos show Sara in the way investigators believe she may have been dressed in the months before she died.

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Looked like an angel. May Allah bless her soul.

What kind of father would murder his 10 year old child? These animals should be publicly executed.
 
BunnyRabbit said:
Looked like an angel. May Allah bless her soul.

What kind of father would murder his 10 year old child? These animals should be publicly executed.
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Not only murder, but a sequence of physical abuse over a period of time on this poor girl. No matter how many times I see something horrific like this in the news I can never quite believe that people like this exist living in the same society as me.
 
Firebat said:
Not only murder, but a sequence of physical abuse over a period of time on this poor girl. No matter how many times I see something horrific like this in the news I can never quite believe that people like this exist living in the same society as me.
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It's one reason i believe in harsh punishments for such filth. Once they get dealt with and made example of, others will think twice before planning to do something heinous like this.
 

EXCLUSIVE: Sara Sharif's siblings 'are living on stale bread and being poorly treated by Pakistani authorities' her grandfather claims - as the child's father awaits murder trial in UK​


The siblings of Sara Sharif are being fed stale bread and are constantly crying and upset because authorities in Pakistan are not looking after them properly, their grandfather has told MailOnline.

Muhammad Sharif appeared in a court in the Pakistani city of Jhelum to try and get custody of Sara's five siblings, who are aged between one and 13.

Last month, they were sent to a government childcare facility after being discovered by police at Mr Sharif's home.

Sara's father Urfan Sharif, 41, her stepmother Beinash Batool, 29, and Urfan's brother, Faisal Malik, 28 have been charged with Sara's murder.

The three adults left the UK for Pakistan on 9 August accompanied by the five children. The ten-year-old's body was discovered a day later at the family home in Woking.

A post-mortem examination found she had sustained 'multiple and extensive injuries.'

Speaking to MailOnline ahead of the custody hearing in Jhelum, their grandfather said: 'The children belong to our family, and we should be looking after them.

'I have been to visit them at the home where they are staying, and the conditions are not good while their health is deteriorating. They are being fed stale bread and are not being treated properly. It's not right that they are not with us.

He added: 'We can give them the love and the support that they need at this difficult time. The children are crying all the time and say that they want me to take them home.'

Mr Sharif told the court that two of the female children have special needs, while another suffers from severe asthma. The youngest is still being bottle fed.

He said: 'I want to take my grandchildren to live with me in my home in Jhelum. Two of the girls need to be in a special school and require a lot of support while my eldest grandchild is a very good cricketer, and I would like to enrol him in one of the city's best private schools.

'The authorities in Pakistan do not have the resources or the time to look after these children.'

The children are being housed at a facility run by Pakistan's Child Protection Bureau based in Lahore, almost four hours away from where Mr Sharif lives.

Bureau official Shafi Ratyal denied Mr Sharif's claims.

He said: 'It's simply not true. They are being looked after to the best of our ability and we have even provided them with a special diet because we know that some of them have medical issues and have taken into account all their care needs.

'We have gone out of our way to make life as comfortable as possible for these children because we realise that they were born in the UK.'

A judge adjourned the case and ruled that the children should be presented in court for the next hearing when he will decide their fate.

 
Sara Sharif murder case: Family members deny murder of 10-year-old girl in England

The father of a British-Pakistani 10-year-old girl whose death sparked an international manhunt pleaded not guilty to her murder in a UK court on Thursday, together with two other family members.

Sara Sharif’s body was discovered at her home in Woking, southern England, on August 10.

A post-mortem examination found she had sustained “multiple and extensive injuries” over a long period.

Her father 41-year-old Urfan Sharif, her step-mother Beinash Batool, 29, and his brother Faisal Malik, 28, deny killing the girl.

They entered their pleas via video link to London’s Old Bailey court.

According to the BBC Urfan and Faisal appeared by video link from Belmarsh Prison, while Beinash appeared by video link from Bronzefield Prison.

Sara’s body was found after an emergency call alerting officers was made from Pakistan by a man identifying himself as the father, according to detectives.

The house was otherwise empty, and the manhunt continued with Interpol and Britain’s foreign ministry coordinating with authorities in Pakistan.

The day before Sara’s body was found the three defendants had left the UK for Pakistan with Sharif’s five other children.

They were arrested in September after disembarking from a flight from Dubai.

The trial is expected to start in September 2024 and it is expected to last six weeks.



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Sara Sharif: Murder trial expected in October


The trial of a father, stepmother and uncle charged with murdering a 10-year-old girl is expected to begin in October.

Urfan Sharif, 42, Beinash Batool, 29, and Urfan's brother, Faisal Malik, 28, are accused of killing Sara Sharif, who was found dead at her home in Woking, Surrey, on 10 August.

All three have pleaded not guilty.

A hearing at the Old Bailey on Friday heard the trial will be heard by High Court judge Mr Justice Cavanagh.

The three defendants, who lived with Sara before her death, attended the hearing by video link.

They are also charged with causing or allowing the death of a child, which they all deny.

Judge Mark Lucraft directed the defendants should next appear for a hearing in February, at which the trial date would be finalised.

The trial, which had previously been listed for September, is expected to last for six weeks.



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Murder trial of three Pakistanis in UK to begin on Oct 7

A trial date has been set for Oct 7 for three individuals accused of the murder of a 10-year-old girl found dead in her Woking, Surrey home in August last year.

British-Pakistani Urfan Sharif, 42, Beinash Batool, 29, and Urfan’s brother, Faisal Malik, 28, all of whom were living with the child before her death, have pleaded not guilty to the charges.

In addition to the murder charge, the three defendants also face allegations of causing or allowing the death of a child, a charge they also deny.

The trial is expected to last seven weeks at the Old Bailey in London.

The incident came to light after Surrey Police received a call from Pakistan on Aug 10, which led to the discovery of the body.

A post-mortem examination revealed that she had suffered “multiple and extensive injuries,” likely sustained over an extended period. Although the exact cause of death remains undetermined, authorities have stated that her death was probably “unnatural”.

The trio had fled to Islamabad with the victim’s five siblings on Aug 9, just one day before her body was discovered. They remained in hiding for over a month before returning to the UK where they were arrested on Sept 13 and subsequently charged two days later.

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Sara Sharif's father told police 'I've killed my daughter' after fleeing to Pakistan, court hears

Sara Sharif's father told police "I've killed my daughter", claiming "I legally punished her, and she died," after fleeing to Pakistan, a court has heard.

Urfan Sharif dialled 999 in the early hours of 10 August last year, when he and the rest of his family were already thousands of miles away.

Sara, 10, had suffered dozens of injuries, including bruising, burns and broken bones when her body was found in an upstairs bedroom on a bottom bunk bed in her home in Woking, Surrey.

The Old Bailey heard she had been beaten with objects, strangled, tied up, burnt with an iron and even bitten in the weeks before her death.

In an eight-and-a-half minute phone call played to jurors, minicab driver Sharif, 42, was heard crying before he told the operator: "I've killed my daughter".

He also said: "I legally punished her, and she died," adding "she was naughty", and: "I beat her up, it wasn't my intention to kill her, but I beat her up too much".

Prosecutors say Sara was killed on 8 August, before Sharif and his family spent more than £5,000 to fly to Pakistan the following day, landing on 10 August.

Police later found a note in his handwriting by her body, next to her pillow, which said "Love you Sara" on the first page.


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Sara Sharif's father told police 'I've killed my daughter' after fleeing to Pakistan, court hears

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This sad story goes from bad to worse. Imagine the state of the siblings who are now living under Pakistani authorities, it's like choosing between devil and the sea.
 
Horrific, sadistic to the core.

I have a 7yo daughter. Oh man this hurts.

What a bunch of paindus, thinking they can return to their homeland to escape the wrath.
 

Sara's injuries comparable to car crash, jury told​


Ten-year-old Sara Sharif suffered injuries which were comparable to a person involved in a car crash, a court has heard.

The girl's body, which was found in her family's home in Surrey last year, had signs of healing spinal fractures which had then been rebroken, the Old Bailey was told.

Her father Urfan Sharif, 42, stepmother Beinash Batool, 30, and uncle, Faisal Malik, 29, have denied murder.

Jurors previously heard the girl had been hooded, burned, bitten and beaten during more than two years of abuse.

Giving evidence, paediatric radiologist Prof Owen Arthurs told the court that spinal fractures were “very rare” and usually caused by high impact or high speed trauma, such as road traffic incidents.

He also told jurors that Sara’s neck injuries were “extremely rare”.

“The most likely cause is manual strangulation with a degree of force, which we would mostly recognise in hanging,” he told the court.

The court previously heard that Sara had suffered puncture wounds, burns, bruising and abrasions, and a post-mortem examination found Sara had "probable human bite marks", an iron burn and scalding from hot water.

Prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones KC previously said a bloodstained cricket bat, a rolling pin with Sara’s DNA on it, a metal pole, a belt and rope were found near the family’s outhouse.

The court also previously heard Mr Sharif, Ms Batool and Mr Malik travelled to Islamabad, Pakistan, with Sara's five brothers and sisters on 9 August 2023, the day before her body was found.

Prosecutors said Mr Sharif called police from Pakistan and admitted he killed Sara about an hour after his family’s flight had landed in Islamabad.

Jurors were told Mr Sharif's case was that Ms Batool was responsible for Sara's death, and he made a false confession on the phone call and also in a note to protect his wife.

The three defendants, who lived with Sara in Woking before her death, are also charged with causing or allowing the death of a child, which they deny.

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Sara's injuries comparable to car crash, jury told​


Ten-year-old Sara Sharif suffered injuries which were comparable to a person involved in a car crash, a court has heard.

The girl's body, which was found in her family's home in Surrey last year, had signs of healing spinal fractures which had then been rebroken, the Old Bailey was told.

Her father Urfan Sharif, 42, stepmother Beinash Batool, 30, and uncle, Faisal Malik, 29, have denied murder.

Jurors previously heard the girl had been hooded, burned, bitten and beaten during more than two years of abuse.

Giving evidence, paediatric radiologist Prof Owen Arthurs told the court that spinal fractures were “very rare” and usually caused by high impact or high speed trauma, such as road traffic incidents.

He also told jurors that Sara’s neck injuries were “extremely rare”.

“The most likely cause is manual strangulation with a degree of force, which we would mostly recognise in hanging,” he told the court.

The court previously heard that Sara had suffered puncture wounds, burns, bruising and abrasions, and a post-mortem examination found Sara had "probable human bite marks", an iron burn and scalding from hot water.

Prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones KC previously said a bloodstained cricket bat, a rolling pin with Sara’s DNA on it, a metal pole, a belt and rope were found near the family’s outhouse.

The court also previously heard Mr Sharif, Ms Batool and Mr Malik travelled to Islamabad, Pakistan, with Sara's five brothers and sisters on 9 August 2023, the day before her body was found.

Prosecutors said Mr Sharif called police from Pakistan and admitted he killed Sara about an hour after his family’s flight had landed in Islamabad.

Jurors were told Mr Sharif's case was that Ms Batool was responsible for Sara's death, and he made a false confession on the phone call and also in a note to protect his wife.

The three defendants, who lived with Sara in Woking before her death, are also charged with causing or allowing the death of a child, which they deny.

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Honestly feel like crying each time i read this. That poor girl what she went too. Those responsible should burn in hell
 
Sara Sharif had unexplained fractures in 25 locations on body, court hears

Sara Sharif had unexplained fractures in 25 locations on her body which were most likely caused by "multiple episodes of blunt force trauma inflicted over several weeks", a court has heard.

The 10-year-old suffered more than 70 injuries shortly before she was found dead in her home in Woking, Surrey, on 10 August last year, jurors were previously told.

Sara's father minicab driver Urfan Sharif, 42, is on trial at the Old Bailey accused of his daughter's murder, alongside Sara's stepmother Beinash Batool, 30, and 29-year-old uncle Faisal Malik.

Consultant paediatric radiologist Professor Owen Arthurs told jurors on Friday that in his opinion, most of Sara's fractures "were very unusual and they cannot be explained by an accidental mechanism nor can they be explained as any single high impact trauma event".

Professor Arthurs highlighted fractures to Sara's hand and the vertebrae in her spine, as well as the hyoid in her neck, which he said was "extremely rare".

"I have not ever seen a hyoid fracture in a child even in those where we have a very good history of ligature strangulation.

"The most likely case here is manual strangulation with a degree of force above that which we would commonly recognise in ligature strangulation - hanging."

Of the fractures in her spine, Professor Arthurs said they were likely caused by "high-velocity impact or multiple trauma", and that spinal fractures are "very rare" and usually caused by road traffic accidents or falling from a height.

There were also fractures to Sara's right clavicle, both shoulder blades, ribs and right elbow, the court heard.


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Honestly feel like crying each time i read this. That poor girl what she went too. Those responsible should burn in hell
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Absolutely heartbreaking. How evil and soulless do you have to be to do such horrible acts? I hope all three are severely punished. Sickening.
 
My money is on the stepmother being the mastermind, her husband is probably a complete chud and was following her orders.
 

Sara Sharif’s father said she had made his ‘life hell’, court hears​


The father of Sara Sharif had said his daughter had made his “life hell” 18 months before she was killed, a court has heard.

Urfan Sharif said his wife, Beinash Batool, had accused Sara of misbehaving while he was at work, alleging the 10-year-old had cut up his clothes and shoelaces and hidden his keys.

But Sharif, 42, said he never witnessed this behaviour when he was at home as he accused Batool, Sara’s stepmother, of being “crazy” and “abusive”.

Sharif, Batool, 30, and Sara’s paternal uncle Faisal Malik, 29, are on trial at the Old Bailey accused of carrying out a violent “campaign of abuse” before the schoolgirl was found dead in a bunk bed at the family home in Surrey on 10 August 2023.

The defendants allegedly killed Sara on 8 August before fleeing to Pakistan, from where Sharif called police to say he had “beat her up too much”. He had left a handwritten “confession” near her fully clothed body saying: “I swear to God that my intention was not to kill her. But I lost it.”

Sharif, a taxi driver, wept during his second day of evidence on Wednesday as he told jurors he would be forced to escape out of windows because Batool would lock him in the house and beat him.

Sharif said Batool was “very, very crazy”, as jurors were shown two video clips of the alleged abuse.

Sharif said he recorded the first video on 28 February 2016 after Batool accused him of flirting with a hospital nurse and began “physically abusing” him.

In the clip, Sharif could be heard saying: “You are pushing me. You are abusing me. Get off me. You are hitting me. I’m going to use this as evidence, I’m telling you now.”

Batool repeatedly demanded he stop filming saying: “I ain’t scared of you.”

In the second video, dated 26 June 2019, Sharif was heard repeatedly asking Batool to “let me go” before jumping out of a window.

Sharif told jurors Batool “slapped” him, adding: “I tried to leave but she locked the front door. I jumped through the kitchen window.”

His barrister, Naeem Mian KC, asked why he had made the recordings and Sharif replied: “She’s very, very crazy, when she goes into that mindset she doesn’t stop, she doesn’t care about anything at all.”

When asked why he did not end the relationship, Sharif added: “Her family used to come a lot and tell me not to leave. She [Batool] used to tell me much she loved me. Her family told me she was possessed, someone has done black magic on her and most of the time she’s good but when she goes mad no one can stop her.”

Sharif was also asked about WhatsApp messages he had sent to Batool, which she had forwarded as a screenshot on 10 February 2022 to her older sister.

He had texted Batool saying: “Both of you have made my life hell … Neither her nor you can be trusted. Both of you make life hell for people who love and care for you. I’m done with you now but it will be her turn if she does anything silly.”

Sharif told jurors the message referred to Batool and Sara. He said he had sent it because Sara was accused of being “naughty” and Batool was “abusive”.

He wept as he added: “I loved Beinash from the first day, and I loved Sara because she was my daughter, but always something was going on when they were together.”

Sharif also accused Batool of being the driving force behind the decision to homeschool Sara. When Mian asked: “Was this a plan by you to keep Sara from school because she was so badly bruised,” Sharif replied: “No, sir.”

All three defendants have denied murder and causing or allowing the death of a child between 16 December 2022 and 9 August 2023.

The trial before the judge, Mr Justice Cavanagh, continues.

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Remember sara sharif had bite marks everyone was tested for their dental imprints but beanish batool refused to give her sample
 
That's why I am an advocate for strict immigration policy to stop these modern type of freshies coming from south Asia because unlike our forefathers these lot are a very nice and honest bunch of people but majority are chancers.
They've literally turned the uk into a third world toilet has mass immigration in last 20 yrs .
 
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That's why I am an advocate for strict immigration policy to stop these modern type of freshies coming from south Asia because unlike our forefathers these lot are a very nice and honest bunch of people but majority are chancers.
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I agree that the UK has turned into a third world dump in areas where immigrants are turning up en masse, particularly the refugee types. But some of the worst are not South Asians, they are east Europeans or Africans. Also not sure immigration or stopping it will prevent cases of child abuse like this. There are two stories of middle aged white paedophiles in the news today we just don't associate their race to their crimes.
 
Hope this father gets proper street justice in Jail
 
Sara Sharif's murder-accused dad tells jury his world was 'crushed' when he realised his daughter was dead

The murder-accused father of 10-year-old Sara Sharif has told a jury his world was "crushed" when he realised his daughter had died after his wife told him she was only being "dramatic".

Taxi driver Urfan Sharif, 42, told jurors he found his daughter collapsed after his wife Beinash Batool called him home from work on the evening of 8 August last year.

Sharif is on trial at the Old Bailey accused of Sara's murder, along with Sara's stepmother Batool, 30, and uncle Faisal Malik, 29.

Recounting the moment he held Sara's lifeless body in his arms, he told jury members: "I was numb. My world crushed, the whole world has fallen on me."

Giving evidence on Friday, Sharif said Sara was "limp" on Batool's lap in a bedroom by the time he returned to their home in Woking, Surrey.

His wife had claimed Sara was being "dramatic" and "pretending" not to get up after she fell on the stairs while being "silly" with another child, the court was told.

Sharif said: "I tapped her face, asked Sara to get up, but she didn't get up so I took Sara from Batool's lap and tapped her again.

"She opened her eyes, said she is thirsty, needs water, and she's feeling sleepy."

He said he shouted for water and his wife gave him some but Sara - who was found by a post-mortem examination to have suffered dozens of injuries, including burns from an iron, human bite marks and signs of restraint - didn't drink it.

"She did not wake up, she was sleeping," Sharif said.

Sharif went on: "I shouted for (an) ambulance because I could not hear breathing. I checked the pulse and there was none.

"I started giving her CPR. I was numb, like I am now. I was shocked."

About 10 minutes later, Sharif said he asked Batool where the ambulance was, but she told him "there is no need because she's dead".

He told jurors he did not call emergency services himself because Batool "snatched" the phone from him and told him he should protect the family.

The defendant said he was "shocked" to see a red mark on Sara before Batool explained the other child had beaten and stamped on her.

Sharif said he wrote a letter confessing to killing her daughter and left it beside Sara's body so he could "take the blame".

But it was Batool who instructed him to say in the note that he had "lost it", he said.

Later that night, flights were booked for the family to travel to Pakistan the following day.

Police found Sara's body after Sharif called from Islamabad on 10 August.

The defendants were detained on their return to the UK on 13 September last year.

They deny murder and causing or allowing the death of a child between 16 December 2022 and 9 August 2023.

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Sara Sharif's father confesses to killing daughter​


Sara Sharif’s father has accepted “full responsibility” for her death, a court has heard.

Her father Urfan Sharif, 42, stepmother Beinash Batool, 30, and uncle, Faisal Malik, 29, had denied murder after Sara’s body was found with dozens of injuries at the family’s home in Woking, Surrey, last year.

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Sara Sharif's father denies her body was jetwashed before family fled to Pakistan

The father of Sara Sharif has denied the little girl's battered body was stripped and jetwashed in the garden before the family fled to Pakistan.

Warning: This story contains details readers may find distressing.

It comes as police released images of a cricket bat and a metal pole which taxi driver Urfan Sharif has admitted using to attack her before she died.

Sharif said he used packaging tape to tie Sara up and also struck her with a mobile phone.

But he has denied biting her on the arm and thigh, burning her with a domestic iron and boiling water, and putting her head in a hood as he carried out punishments for "naughty" behaviour.

Jurors were told Sara's soiled leggings and nappy were discarded in the garden near a jetwash with the tape and hoods in the bin.

The 10-year-old was wearing clean clothes when her body was found in a bunkbed at the family home in Woking, Surrey, after Sharif called police on arrival in Islamabad in August last year, the Old Bailey heard.




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Absolutely horrific. The details given paint the most awful life for the little girl.
 
Sara Sharif's stepmum and uncle not giving evidence

The stepmother and uncle of Sara Sharif will not give evidence in their defence during their trial for the 10-year-old’s murder.

At the Old Bailey, Mr Justice Cavanagh asked if each of the defendants’ barristers had advised their clients that the “jury may draw such inference as is proper” from their failure to do so, and they confirmed they had.

Sara's stepmother Beinash Batool, 30, and uncle, Faisal Malik, 29, along with the girl's father, Urfan Sharif, 42, have denied murder and causing or allowing her death.

The court previously heard that Sara's body was found with dozens of injuries at the family’s home in Woking, Surrey, last year, and that she had been hooded, burned and beaten during more than two years of abuse.

The jury were asked to return on Wednesday and later this week legal directions will start, the judge told the court.

A post-mortem examination found Sara had suffered injuries including "probable human bite marks", an iron burn and scalding from hot water before she died on 8 August 2023.

Prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones KC previously said a bloodstained cricket bat, a rolling pin with Sara’s DNA on it, a metal pole, a belt and rope were found near the family’s outhouse.

Under cross-examination, Mr Sharif previously accepted “full responsibility” for Sara's death, but later denied intending to kill her.

He also told the jury he was lying when he called his wife, Ms Batool, a “psycho” earlier in the trial.

Mr Sharif admitted beating Sara, but denied biting or burning her.

The court previously heard Mr Sharif, Ms Batool and Mr Malik travelled to Islamabad, Pakistan, with Sara's five brothers and sisters on 9 August 2023, the day before her body was found.

The trial continues.

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Dad and stepmum guilty of Sara Sharif murder​


The father and stepmother of 10-year-old Sara Sharif have been found guilty of her murder.

Sara was hooded, burned and beaten during more than two years of abuse before her body was found with dozens of injuries at the family's home in Woking, Surrey, last year.

Her father Urfan Sharif, 43, stepmother Beinash Batool, 30, and uncle, Faisal Malik, 29, travelled to Islamabad, Pakistan, with Sara's siblings on 9 August 2023, the day after she died.

Malik was found guilty of causing or allowing her death.

There was no reaction from Sharif as the verdicts were delivered at the Old Bailey, while Batool cried.

As the defendants were led out of the dock, Malik was seen sobbing.

Sentencing is due to take place next week.

A post-mortem examination found Sara had suffered injuries including "probable human bite marks", an iron burn and scalding from hot water before she died on 8 August last year.

Next to Sara's body, which was found by police in a bunkbed, was a note in her father's handwriting, which read: "Whoever see this note, it's me Urfan Sharif who killed my daughter by beating."

Jurors were initially told that Sharif's case was that Batool was responsible for Sara's death, and he made a false confession in a note and a subsequent phone call to protect his wife.

However, Sharif went on to accept "full responsibility" for Sara's death under cross-examination.

During the trial, Sharif claimed he came home on the evening on 8 August 2023 to find his wife sitting on the floor in the couple's bedroom, holding Sara.

Giving evidence, he said Batool told him the girl had fallen down the stairs while playing with another child, and that she was “pretending” and “being dramatic".

Sharif said he told Sara to “get up” and took her arm, but it was limp.

He previously said he gave his daughter CPR for 10 minutes, but Batool told him to stop.

Sharif said that when he asked where the ambulance was, Batool replied: “There’s no need because she’s dead.”

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They were all in it together torturing and murdering this girl and then planning the escape.

They only escaped to makesure social services don't take their other children.

I bet the relatives in pakistan knew about everything going on pakistan police should pay them a visit and give them some beatings too since the aided and abbetted the escape and took in the other kids
 

'I hid Sara Sharif's 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 Sharif’s, of helping them. But during multiple raids on his property, they failed to find the family.

The children were later found at another relative's 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 Sara’s death broke.

We met Rasikh Munir before Sara’s 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 Sara’s grandfather shortly after her siblings had been taken away by police.

A jury at London's Old Bailey has now found Sharif and Batool guilty of murdering Sara. Malik was cleared of murder but has been found guilty of causing or allowing her death.

We meet Rasikh Munir on the outskirts of Sialkot, an industrial district in Punjab, surrounded by rice fields and corn crops.

There is barbed wire above the gate to his house and a security camera is trained on us. He welcomes us in, wearing a tracksuit and sliders.

Before we met, Mr Munir told me he’d done nothing wrong in hiding the family. There was no Interpol request for their arrest when he hid them, but he knew police wanted to speak to the family about Sara’s death.

When we come face-to-face, I wonder if he’ll be coy about his involvement, yet within minutes of entering the house, his tour begins.

“This was Urfan’s room," he says, showing me a dark bedroom with the curtains closed and a white bed frame with a yellow patterned sheet. "They [Sharif and Malik] used to sleep here, they used this table for food."

He points to a red plastic table and blue sofa. "They used to sit here with Beinash to contact the lawyer and discuss how they should talk to police in the UK."

He takes me through to a second bedroom, hung with dark red curtains and a double bed squeezed beside a wooden wardrobe. This, he says, is where Batool and the children used to sleep - some on the bed, some on mattresses on the floor.

As we talk, I notice the outline of a gun tucked in his waistband. When we ask about the weapons, we are told they are for protection from thieves.

We climb out onto an open, flat roof, strung with an empty washing line. "From this roof, you could see the police from all four sides," Mr Munir says pointing across the open fields.

Bar a few one-storey buildings and a scattering of trees, the view is nearly clear to the main road.

Police came to the property on several occasions at night. Mr Munir tells us the family hid from officers in a thick field of corn, a few metres away from the house - the adults and all five children hiding in the dark, in hot, humid conditions.

"No police ever checked this area. The kids had just one bag, they didn’t have many clothes with them. Most of their stuff was in my car, which I used to park in a safe place," he says.

“The younger ones didn’t know what was happening," he says. "They were scared, they couldn’t understand."

This was not the first time the family had visited the house. Last time, Sara had been there too. "She was a very nice girl," Mr Munir remembers.

During the international police hunt, he says the family stayed with him for several weeks, but they weren’t in permanent hiding.

He tells us he drove them back and forth between his house in Sialkot and the city of Jhelum, two hours away, where Sara’s grandfather lived. He took them to have haircuts in town and sometimes for ice cream and pizza.

Before the police hunt intensified, he says the family was able to pass through police checkpoints without incident.
But then the net began to tighten.

Just over three weeks into the search, police found Sara’s siblings at their grandfather’s home. The BBC spoke to him minutes after the raid.

"The police have taken away all the children," Muhammad Sharif told us. "They were safe with me." He said Sharif and Batool weren’t there during the raid, but the police took all five of the children.

We were the first journalists inside the house after the raid. The neon plastic toys the children had been playing with were still on the beds. The smashed door was freshly splintered.

Now, Mr Munir tells us something incredible.

As we’d been filming that day, Sara’s father, stepmother and uncle had been hiding in the house next door - just metres away.

He says police only had permission to go into the grandfather’s house, so couldn’t check other nearby properties.

Cameras had been installed, attached to a big LCD screen, so the family could see when the police were coming.

The night the police closed in, Mr Munir says Sara’s father, uncle and stepmother “ran away”. They called him and he went to pick them up.

He says the family realised the game was up the following day. A court instructed that the children be placed in a children’s home in Pakistan.

We attended the hearing. The eldest of the five children carried the youngest through a crowd of police officers and local journalists, trying to protect their faces from camera flashes.

Mr Munir says the loss of the children and the growing police pressure prompted the adults to return to the UK. He said Sharif, Batool and Malik then contacted a UK lawyer and Surrey Police to say they’d be back within days.

He told us he booked flights in their names, even though there was an Interpol notice to find them. Mr Munir said he drove the trio to the airport and that Urfan even called him from the departure lounge to say they had cleared airport security.

When they arrived at Gatwick Airport, all three were arrested for Sara’s murder. The following month, a court allowed all the siblings to stay temporarily with a relative in Pakistan. Surrey County Council is still trying to bring them back to the UK.

Their family in Pakistan is fighting to keep them there.

It is difficult to confirm every aspect of Mr Munir’s story. He has no photos of the time the family was with him - his phone was taken by the police, he tells us.

He has remained consistent and detailed in his story. He didn’t come to us. After several months of searching, we found him.

We also know the police raided his property and were suspicious of his involvement from early on.

Throughout our conversation I was curious why he was happy to speak to us.

"One should tell what has happened," he says. "The person who hides reality is not a good person."

But when Mr Munir took the family in, he knew the 10-year-old girl he had met several summers before had been found dead and that police wanted to speak to the three adults hiding in his house.

The murder trial in London has since heard how Sara's body was found with dozens of injuries. She had been hooded, burned and beaten during more than two years of horrific abuse.

Mr Munir was clear, even before the trial, there should be consequences for her brutal death. "Whoever has done this to Sara should be punished because they have done a great injustice," he says.

It seems a contradictory response from someone who knowingly hid the three adults.

I kept pressing Mr Munir on whether he felt he had done anything wrong in hiding the adults and why he had helped the family.

“The case was in the UK, it had nothing to do with Pakistan,” he says. “Had it been a matter in Pakistan then maybe I wouldn’t have taken such a big risk.

“I helped Urfan and the young children. If I hadn’t helped them, they would have been completely helpless. I helped them to look after the kids, I felt sympathy for them.

“They were my people. Had I not stood by them and something bad had happened to them who would have been responsible for them?”

Sara’s grandfather and other members of the family have repeatedly lodged complaints in court that their family members were picked up by police to apply pressure on them to give up their whereabouts.

Police in Pakistan deny this. They say, since the hunt, all the cases against the family have been dropped.

But the consequences of the decision to bring the five children to Pakistan are not over.

All five, who until that point had spent their lives in the UK, are still in Pakistan. For now, their future is still uncertain.

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'I hid Sara Sharif's family during international police hunt'

During multiple raids on Rasikh Malik's property, officers failed to find the family. But he was the one who hid them.
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hassan918 said:

EXCLUSIVE: Sara Sharif's siblings 'are living on stale bread and being poorly treated by Pakistani authorities' her grandfather claims - as the child's father awaits murder trial in UK​


The siblings of Sara Sharif are being fed stale bread and are constantly crying and upset because authorities in Pakistan are not looking after them properly, their grandfather has told MailOnline.

Muhammad Sharif appeared in a court in the Pakistani city of Jhelum to try and get custody of Sara's five siblings, who are aged between one and 13.

Last month, they were sent to a government childcare facility after being discovered by police at Mr Sharif's home.

Sara's father Urfan Sharif, 41, her stepmother Beinash Batool, 29, and Urfan's brother, Faisal Malik, 28 have been charged with Sara's murder.

The three adults left the UK for Pakistan on 9 August accompanied by the five children. The ten-year-old's body was discovered a day later at the family home in Woking.

A post-mortem examination found she had sustained 'multiple and extensive injuries.'

Speaking to MailOnline ahead of the custody hearing in Jhelum, their grandfather said: 'The children belong to our family, and we should be looking after them.

'I have been to visit them at the home where they are staying, and the conditions are not good while their health is deteriorating. They are being fed stale bread and are not being treated properly. It's not right that they are not with us.

He added: 'We can give them the love and the support that they need at this difficult time. The children are crying all the time and say that they want me to take them home.'

Mr Sharif told the court that two of the female children have special needs, while another suffers from severe asthma. The youngest is still being bottle fed.

He said: 'I want to take my grandchildren to live with me in my home in Jhelum. Two of the girls need to be in a special school and require a lot of support while my eldest grandchild is a very good cricketer, and I would like to enrol him in one of the city's best private schools.

'The authorities in Pakistan do not have the resources or the time to look after these children.'

The children are being housed at a facility run by Pakistan's Child Protection Bureau based in Lahore, almost four hours away from where Mr Sharif lives.

Bureau official Shafi Ratyal denied Mr Sharif's claims.

He said: 'It's simply not true. They are being looked after to the best of our ability and we have even provided them with a special diet because we know that some of them have medical issues and have taken into account all their care needs.

'We have gone out of our way to make life as comfortable as possible for these children because we realise that they were born in the UK.'

A judge adjourned the case and ruled that the children should be presented in court for the next hearing when he will decide their fate.

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Taxi driver and three kids? What is wrong with people? Never heard of contraceptives? Family planning? Budgeting?

My spouse and I have a very good living and yet we made the decision that for us and given our finances, one and done.

Money problems can exacerbate other problems and this illiterate idiot looks like he has a host of them.
 

'Questions to be answered' over Sara Sharif case, PM says, as number of children harmed by abuse revealed​


Sir Keir Starmer says there are "questions to be answered" over the murder of 10-year-old Sara Sharif, as a report reveals hundreds of children died or were seriously harmed by abuse in one year.

New findings published a day after Sara's father and stepmother were found guilty of her murder show more than 480 children in England were affected by "serious incidents" between April 2023 and March 2024.

One of those children was Sara, who died in August last year after a campaign of abuse.

Sara had been known to social services throughout her life and her father had faced previous allegations of abuse.

Her school had referred concerns about bruises on her face to social services five months before her murder, but the case was closed by social workers days later.

An independent child safeguarding review will now examine whether she was failed by the authorities.

The prime minister described it as an "awful" case.

"My first response is a human response. This is just awful case. It's very hard to see, to read about, for many people who will be viewing, it's just shocking," he said.

"So that's where I start on this. Obviously, there's going to be questions that need to be answered in relation to this case."

In the weeks before her death, Sara was tied up, beaten with a cricket bat, burnt with an iron and even bitten, the Old Bailey heard.

She suffered more than 70 injuries shortly before she was found dead at her house in Woking, with multiple fractures in 25 locations on her body.

Asked if the government would ban smacking children in its Children's Wellbeing Bill, Sir Keir said this case does not have anything to do with smacking.

"This is about violence. It's about abuse. It's about making sure that [there are] protecting safeguards for children, particularly those being home-schooled," he said.

"So that's where I think the questions are. But my response, first and foremost, is just the most awful case that many people, many viewers will find very, very, very hard to hear."

Hundreds of children affected

Data from the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel revealed 485 children died or were seriously harmed by abuse or neglect in the year to March 31 2024.

Panel chairwoman Annie Hudson reflected on Sara's "harrowing" case, saying the child protection system must change and calling for multi-agency children teams in local authorities.

Of the 330 serious incident notifications received by the panel, just under half - 46% - were for children who died.

More than a third involved babies under one.

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'Questions to be answered' over Sara Sharif case, PM says, as number of children harmed by abuse revealed

Sir Keir Starmer has said the murder of 10-year-old Sara Sharif was "the most awful case", adding there are "questions that need to be answered". He spoke as a new report reveals hundreds of children died or were seriously harmed by abuse in one year.
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Sara's death described as 'torture' by judge

Mr Justice Cavanagh begins: "Sara's death was the culmination of years of neglect, frequent assaults, and what can only be described as the torture of this small child."

He says this was mainly at the hands of her father Urfan Sharif, but not entirely.

"The degree of cruelty involved is almost inconceivable," the judge continues.

"This happened in plain sight in front of the rest of the family, including for the last eight months of Sara's life in front of you."

'Nothing that I can do will provide recompense for the loss of this young child's life'
Mr Justice Cavanagh turns to Sara's father, Urfan Sharif.

He says he is required to pass a life sentence, but that he must impose a minimum term.

"The minimum term is not a fixed term, after which you will automatically be released. Rather, it is the minimum term that you must spend in custody before your case can be considered by the parole board," he explains.

He also says that "the sentences that I'm about to impose... upon should not be seen by anyone as being intended to be a measure of the value of Sara's life.

"Nothing that I can do will provide recompense for the loss of this young child'
s life."

Source: Sky News
 

Sara's uncle is jailed for 16 years​

Sara's uncle Faisal Malik, 29, who was cleared of murder but found guilty of causing or allowing Sara's death, is sentenced to 16 years in prison.

Sara's stepmother gets life sentence with minimum 33 years​

Her stepmother Beinash Batool, 30, is given a life sentence with a minimum term of 33 years for murder

Sara Sharif's father jailed for life with a minimum 40 years​

Sara Sharif's father Urfan Sharif, 42, is given a life sentence with a minimum term of 40 years for murder.

'The last thing Sara felt was her father beating her'​

The judge is running through other factors that have influenced his sentence for Urfan Sharif, which he is set to deliver shortly.
He returns to the night Sara Sharif died, when the family came home to find the 10-year-old clearly unwell, likely caused by a brain injury inflicted a few days earlier.

"When you came home on 8 August 2023 and found Sara very close to death, you did not call an ambulance or seek medical help," he says.
Instead Sharif's first reaction "was to beat her with a metal rod for causing trouble", the judge says.
"She was still conscious... this means that the last thing that Sara felt before she died had been her own father, beating her for supposedly faking injury."

Source: Sky News
 
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