Sara Sharif’s grandfather vows to keep her siblings in Pakistan as vigil held for murdered girl
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Hundreds pay respects to 10-year-old as Muhammed Sharif says ‘safest place’ for his other grandchildren is with him. Sara Sharif’s grandfather said he will fight to keep her siblings in Pakistan, calling it the “safest place for them”, as a vigil was held for the murdered 10-year-old in Surrey.
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Muhammad Sharif said he would appeal to the high court in Pakistan to stop Sara’s five siblings from being returned to the UK. It comes as Will Forster, Liberal Democrat MP for Woking, where Sara lived, said hundreds of people attended a “very moving” vigil in her memory on Sunday evening.
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The event, called Remembering an Angel Sara Sharif, was held outside her house, on Hammond Road, with attenders encouraged to light a candle or lay a rose. Hundreds of people attended a very moving vigil in memory of Sara Sharif this evening - so many are heartbroken by her loss. pic.twitter.com/4hTokVeE0S.
Forster wrote on X: “So many are heartbroken by her loss.”. Sara’s siblings, whose identities are protected by a court order, remain in the city of Jhelum in north-eastern Pakistan, with efforts to return them to the UK still ongoing. They were taken by Urfan Sharif, Sara’s stepmother Beinash Batool and her uncle Faisal Malik on 9 August last year, a day before Sara’s body was discovered at the family home in Woking.
