UK court to sentence father, stepmother for killing daughter Sara Sharif – World

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A UK court will Tuesday hand down its sentences on the father and stepmother of a British-Pakistani girl, who died from prolonged and horrific abuse in a case which shocked the UK.

Sara Sharif was just 10 when she was found dead in her bed in August 2023, her body covered in bites and bruises, with broken bones and burn marks.

A post-mortem revealed she had more than 100 injuries, and at least 25 broken bones.

Her father Urfan Sharif, 43, admitted beating her with a cricket bat, as she was bound by packaging tape in the weeks before her death. He also throttled her with his bare hands, breaking the hyoid bone in her neck.

Urfan Sharif and Sara’s stepmother, Beinash Batool, 30, were found guilty last week after a 10-week trial at the Old Bailey in London.

Her uncle Faisal Malik, 29, was found guilty of causing or allowing her death.

The day after Sara died, the three adults had fled their home in Woking, southwest of London, flying to Pakistan with five other children.

Her father, a taxi-driver, phoned the police on the way to the airport to report Sara’s death, and left behind a handwritten note saying he had not meant to kill his daughter “but I lost it”.

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