Sara Sharif’s killer dad could have ‘unduly lenient’ prison sentence extended

The Solicitor General has called kid murderer Urfan Sharif’s situation condemnation ‘unduly lenient’ and requested a review.

Sharif was sentenced to beingness imprisonment with a minimum word of 40 years successful December for the execution of his 10-year-old girl Sara, who suffered ‘unimaginable pain, misery and anxiety’ successful the lead-up to her death.

Sara was recovered dormant successful a bunk furniture successful her location successful Woking, Surrey, successful August 2023 aft Sharif, 42, called constabulary from Pakistan to confess helium had ‘beaten her excessively much’.

She had suffered 71 ‘fresh’ injuries, including 25 breached bones, robust burns connected her bottom, scalding marks to her feet, and quality bites – but this was ‘the culmination of years of neglect, predominant assaults and what tin lone beryllium described arsenic torture’, Mr Justice Cavanagh said during sentencing.

Now the Solicitor General has referred Sharif’s condemnation to the Court of Appeal connected the grounds that it was ‘unduly lenient’.

It comes arsenic Sharif, arsenic good arsenic Sara’s stepmother Beinash Batool and uncle Faisal Malik, person each made an exertion to the Court of Appeal with a presumption to entreaty against their sentences.

Batool, 30, was besides convicted of murdering Sara and was jailed for beingness with a minimum word of 33 years, portion 29-year-old Malik was jailed for 16 years for causing oregon allowing the decease of a child.

A spokesperson for the Attorney General’s bureau said: ‘The Solicitor General Lucy Rigby MP has referred Urfan Sharif’s condemnation to the Court of Appeal nether the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme.

‘It is present for the tribunal to determine whether to summation the sentence.’

Since his imprisonment, Sharif was attacked by 2 chap inmates connected New Year’s Day, who reportedly sliced his pharynx with the lid of a tuna can.

During Sharif’s sentencing astatine the Old Bailey, Mr Justice Cavanagh told him: ‘You treated her successful specified a mode due to the fact that you considered it your close to enforce harsh subject connected her.

‘Sara was a brave, feisty and spirited child. She was not submissive arsenic you wanted her to be. She stood up to you.

‘I person nary uncertainty that your ego and consciousness of self-importance was boosted by the powerfulness you wielded implicit her and the remainder of the family.’

He bluntly told Batool she ‘did not attraction astir Sara capable to prevention her’, portion telling Malik his claims helium was excessively engaged connected his telephone to announcement what was going connected were ‘preposterous’.

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