Sara Sharif's father and stepmother are jailed for life for schoolgirl's murder after years of 'horrific suffering'
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Sara Sharif's father and stepmother have been sentenced to life in prison for the schoolgirl's murder after subjecting her to years of 'horrific suffering'. The 10-year-old schoolgirl was subjected to more than two years of abuse by her father Urfan Sharif, 43, and stepmother Beinash Batool, 30.
![[Sara's stepmother Beinash Batool, 30, wept as she was found guilty of murdering the girl. Her uncle Faisal Malik was found guilty of causing or allowing the death of a child]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/10/93039585-14201075-Sara_s_stepmother_Beinash_Batool_30-a-2_1734433112365.jpg)
She was hooded, bitten, burned and eventually beaten to death during a campaign of abuse before her body was found with at least 71 injuries at the family's home in Woking, Surrey, last year. Sharif and Batool were found guilty of murder last Wednesday, while her uncle, Faisal Malik, 29, was convicted of causing or allowing a child's death.
![[Sara Sharif's evil father was sentenced today for the murder of the schoolgirl (pictured)]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/10/93039937-14201075-Sara_Sharif_s_evil_father_faces_life_in_prison_today_for_the_mur-a-4_1734433117252.jpg)
The court heard how Sara had suffered violence for years with a variety of weapons including being scalded with boiling liquid when she was restrained, being beaten with a cricket bat, being hit with a metal pole broken off from a children's high chair and being burned with an iron.
![[Sara Sharif's mother Olga Domin (right) paid a heartbreaking tribute to her 'princess']](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/11/93045809-14201075-Sara_Sharif_s_mother_Olga_Domin_right_has_paid_a_heartbreaking_t-a-24_1734433288652.jpg)
The small 10-year-old suffered an 'unimaginable level of pain' over a 'long period' before her death and that the violence had included a 'use of weapons'. Mr Justice Cavanagh began his sentencing remarks by describing the degree of cruelty shown towards Sara as 'inconceivable', and jailed Sharif to a minimum term of 40 years, Batool to 33 years and Malik to 16 years in prison.
![[Little Sara had suffered violence for years with a variety of weapons]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/11/93227631-14201075-image-a-28_1734433360638.jpg)
He said Sharif was mainly responsible as Sara's father while Batool and Malik had not shown any remorse, as he told the court: 'This poor child was battered with severe force, again and again' and she was treated as 'the family servant despite her young age'.
![[The only clue as to what happened here is found in the garden: where a plastic children's slide sits abandoned by the fence]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/10/93116009-14201075-The_only_clue_as_to_what_happened_here_is_found_in_the_garden_wh-a-5_1734433122904.jpg)
