Schoolgirl made to wear hijab to conceal injuries from beatings, court told
The Guardian|October 16, 2024
The 10-year-old schoolgirl Sara Sharif was made to wear a hijab to conceal her injuries and was homeschooled in the months before she was beaten to death, a court heard yesterday.
Emine Sinmaz
Schoolgirl made to wear hijab to conceal injuries from beatings, court told

Sara "suffered dreadfully" and was burned with an iron, bitten and had had a plastic bag taped over head before she was found dead at her family home in Woking, Surrey, on 10 August last year.

But neighbours had heard the sounds of smacking and "gutwrenching screams" coming from the house in the years before Sara was killed, the Old Bailey heard.

Sara's father, Urfan Sharif, 42, her stepmother, Beinash Batool, 30, and her paternal uncle Faisal Malik, 28, are accused of carrying out a violent "campaign of abuse" before killing her on 8 August 2023.

The court was told the defendants fled to Pakistan the following day.

Sharif then called police to say he had beaten Sara "too much" as a punishment for being naughty. He also left a note by Sara's fully clothed body, saying: "I swear to God that my intention was not to kill her. But I lost it."

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