Name the judges who left Sara Sharif in care of father who killed her, court told
Name the judges who left Sara Sharif in care of father who killed her, court told
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Murdered 10-year-old suffered a catalogue of more than 70 injuries inflicted by her father and stepmother, including 25 fractures, bite marks and burns. The family court judges who allowed murdered schoolgirl Sara Sharif to live with her abusive father and stepmother should not be protected by anonymity, the Court of Appeal has heard.
![[Sara Sharif suffered more than 25 broken bones, iron burns, scalding marks and human bites during a campaign of abuse before her murder]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/12/20/12/4bf82a27217520323e9fa3cc37277726Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzM0NzgxODky-2.78456475.jpg)
Lawyers have argued that a controversial ban on identifying judges who oversaw a string of family court proceedings before her death will have a “corrosive impact on public confidence in the judiciary and the wider justice system.”. A trial last year revealed the 10-year-old endured a horrifying campaign of abuse in which she was routinely hooded, restrained and beaten while living with her father Urfan Sharif and his wife Beinash Batool in Woking, Surrey.
![[Sara Sharif moved in with her father and stepmother 2019, who subjected her to a campaign of abuse]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/12/19/13/4ad59c20ea8405e9a2af1926354954cbY29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzM0Njk4MTYz-2.78456480.jpg)
Her battered body was found at the family home in August 2023 after her relations had fled to Pakistan. She had suffered a catalogue of 70 injuries, which included a traumatic brain injury, 25 fractures, an ulcerated burn to her buttocks, human bite marks and scalding wounds.
Sharif, 42, and Batool, 30, were found guilty of her murder, while her uncle, Faisal Malik, 29, who lived with them, was convicted of causing or allowing her death. Following the shocking trial, details from previous family court proceedings were published, revealing that Surrey County Council had repeatedly raised “significant concerns” that Sara was likely to suffer physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her parents, amid allegations that her father was physically abusing her and her siblings.
