Sara Sharif’s grandfather will ‘fight to keep her siblings safe in Pakistan’
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Sara Sharif’s grandfather has vowed to stop the murdered schoolgirl’s siblings from returning to the UK, claiming Pakistan is the ‘safest place’ for the youngsters. Muhammad Sharif, 69, claims Sara’s five siblings do not want to return to Britain, despite the efforts of the UK Government to bring them home.
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The children were taken to Pakistan by Sara’s father Urfan Sharif, who fled the country on August 9 last year, a day before Sara’s lifeless body was discovered in a bunk bed at their family home in Woking, Surrey. Sara’s stepmother Beinash Batool, 30, and uncle Faisal also fled to Pakistan, before eventually returning home to stand trial for the schoolgirl’s murder, leaving the children behind.
However, Sara’s siblings still remain in the city of Jhelum under the care of their grandfather, with efforts to return them to the UK still ongoing. Their identities are protected by a court order. The murdered 10-year-old was the victim of immense suffering in the months before her death, with apost mortem revealing at least 71 external injuries on her body at the time of her death, making it near-impossible to determine which specific injury caused her death.
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Some of the abuse she suffered at the hands of her father and stepmother included having her arms and legs bound and her head wrapped in a plastic bag secured with parcel tape while her relatives battered her with a cricket bat, metal pole and a rolling pin, strangling her until her neck broke, and burning her with an iron and biting her.
