THREE judges who oversaw tragic Sara Sharif's care proceedings before she was handed over to her killer dad can today be named for the first time after a press freedom win. HHJ Alison Raeside presided over the majority of hearings, including a final one in 2019 when she decided the little girl should live with Urfan Sharif and step-mum Beinash Batool. Retired judges Sally Williams and Peter Nathan also made an interim care order and emergency protection order respectively.

It comes after The Sun helped win a huge press freedom victory by successfully appealing a ruling which banned us from naming them. None of the three judges originally asked to be anonymous, but Mr Justice Williams said in a shocking ruling last month that the press could not be trusted with their identities. Last week, the Court of Appeal said he was wrong to make the ruling and let us name the three for the first time today.

Judge Raeside, who revealed in a podcast she never wanted to do family law originally, was involved in Sara's care proceedings shortly after she was born. In 2019, the decision was made that she would live with Sharif and Batool, which birth mum Olga agreed to. HHJ Nathan made an emergency protection order in November 2014, putting Sara and a sibling in foster care after the sibling was seen with a bite mark in school.

Sara was later found with bite marks when she died. HHJ Williams made an interim care order in July 2015 putting Sara and a sibling in foster care. That decision was made after Urfan broke rules by seeing the children unsupervised. She was later put in mum Olga's care before moving back to Urfan in 2019. Olga previously claimed he told a string of lies to social workers to get the little girl back. Mum-of-four Raeside became a lawyer in 1982. She became a district judge in 2000, was appointed to the circuit bench in 2011, specialising in family law, and from 2019 to 2024 was the designated family judge for Surrey.

Other cases she has been involved in include letting a girl live with her dad in 2020 after she began attacking a "doll daddy". And in 2019, a separate dad was jailed for launching a nine-month online stalking campaign against her with a series of threatening messages after she banned him from seeing his child. By Ed Southgate. JANUARY 2013: Sara was made subject to a child protection plan at birth because of Urfan Sharif being accused of attacking three women including her mother, as well as hitting and biting two children.

But she was allowed to remain with her father. FEBRUARY 22, 2013: A month after Sara was born, social services and police were told that Sharif had slapped a child around the face. Nothing was done. MAY 7, 2013: A social worker spotted a burn mark on a child’s leg. Sharif failed to report the incident and claimed it was a barbecue accident. Nothing was done. OCTOBER 7, 2013: A child was seen with a burn mark made by a domestic iron.

Sharif told social services the child had bumped into the appliance. No action was taken. 2013 TO 2014: A child told a social worker that Sharif smashed up a TV and punched Sara’s mother Olga. NOVEMBER 2014: Sara was taken into foster care after a child told a social worker about a bite mark. But she later returned to live with her father following a family court hearing in October 2019 where social services recommended Sara lived with her father because that was her preference.

JANUARY 2015: Sharif was reported to social services for ­waving a knife around at home in what he said was a zombie game. Social workers noted that Sharif hit and kicked Olga at home and the pair threatened to kill each other. FEBRUARY 2015: A child told their foster carer that Sharif used to hit them on the bottom with a belt. In September that year the child was heard to say to Sharif: “When you’re at home you hit and kick me every day.”.

2015: Olga told social services about Sharif tightening a belt around her neck. Around this time social workers complained Sharif was coercive and derogatory towards them. A male social worker was then appointed to the family. DECEMBER 2016: A child told a social worker they did not like Sharif because he punched them all over their body and gave them lots of bruises. Social workers saw Sara flinch when Sharif told her off during supervised contact and seem ­surprised when he cuddled her.

JUNE 6, 2022: A teacher reported that Sara had a bruise under her eye, using the school’s online child protection monitoring system. Sara initially would not say what happened, before later saying another child hit her. But no referral was made to social services. MARCH 10, 2023: A teacher saw bruises on Sara’s face. Sara said she had fallen on roller skates. When she gave a different story to a safeguarding lead, the school made a referral to social services.