VICTORIA CLIMBIE’S eldest brother has slammed social services’ failure to protect Sara Sharif from her murderous father and stepmother.
Following a legal battle, the three judges who oversaw the Family Court hearings involving Sara in the years before she was murdered were named as Judge Alison Raeside, Judge Peter Nathan and Judge Sally Williams.
Speaking on the anniversary of his sister’s death, Jacques Climbie warned nothing has changed in the 25 years since the London schoolgirl was killed in one of the worst cases of child abuse in British history.
It was only when a minicab driver collecting Victoria from the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God insisted on taking her to the nearby Tottenham Ambulance Station that Victoria finally got help — and by then it was too late.
She was known to four local authorities, two child protection police teams, two hospitals and an NSPCC centre, but the judge described the people overseeing her case as “blindingly incompetent”.
