Thank you. I will try to follow reporting for this trial but I can’t bear to read about how she suffered. There are so many unanswered questions about this little girl’s life and tragic death. Three adults in that house and not one of them kept her safe. I really hope justice is done for her, and for anyone who loved and misses her.
Sara Sharif: Murder trial date set for October
Urfan Sharif, Beinash Batool, and Faisal Malik are accused of killing Sara Sharif in Woking, Surrey.www.bbc.com
Trial date set for 7th October
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I wonder if there will be live reporting?
So glad these people are finally going to trial, it's such an awful case.
I hope so, it's always fascinating following the case along
Sarah Sharif’s father and stepmother appear at 10-year-old’s murder trial: live
The 10-year-old was discovered at her home in Woking, Surrey, last August
Live updates
Is this the window between her last being seen, and the 999 call? Was she kept away from school all this time with no safeguarding flag?
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This is awful
“Legally punished her” what the hell
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This is awful
“Legally punished her” what the hell
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He said in the note that he didn’t intend to kill her, and they’ve all pleaded not guilty to murder. He’s going for manslaughter, isn’t he?
“I think she was naughty over the last three, four weeks and I was giving her punishment to sort her out and I did something and she died.”
I'm sorry but what??? There is no 'punishment' that will 'sort a child out' by breaking their bones. I mean WHAT???
Also 'legally punished', wtf did he mean by this, how is breaking bones a legal punishment in any part of UK law anywhere????
I'm sorry but what??? There is no 'punishment' that will 'sort a child out' by breaking their bones. I mean WHAT???
Also 'legally punished', wtf did he mean by this, how is breaking bones a legal punishment in any part of UK law anywhere????
Islamic Law…
Reading the live updates and poor Sara, he's obviously wanting to get a manslaughter charge so it will be less time but no way, that wasn't a one off incident where he lost control, this was a prolonged cycle of abuse and her body gave up. None of them helped her, they left her lying there for 36 hours. If he didn't mean to do it why not call an ambulance? Get some help?
That poor little girl 
I just had a read and I think they can be culpable of murder
So when he said 'legally punished' he can't have meant legally as in Sharia-compliant, because those passages you've quoted specifically state that the parents, family and friends should exhaust every possible avenue of loving guidance and patience before even considering physical punishment. And it definitely doesn't say that burning your kid and breaking their bones over the course of 'weeks and weeks' is OK.
I guess if he says he had exhausted everything else and she was still ‘naughty’ - and she was kept isolated - he may view what he was doing as ‘legal’
If he viewed it as legal he wouldn't have taken her out of school and then run off to Pakistan, he clearly knew it wasn't legal
How disgusting to try and blame his religion for why he murdered his child. I’d like to think that if he had asked the imam for advice on bad behaviour the response would not be “beat her up repeatedly”. This wasn’t a smack of a naughty child (which I personally don’t agree with doing), it was extreme violence on a defenceless little girl. I’ve said it before but there were two other adults there who could have stepped in if he was losing it.
Of course he knows it’s not legal, but he himself said in the 999 call that he ‘legally’ punished her.
Someone asked how it was part of UK law, and that’s why I posted what I did.
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I absolutely didn’t ‘blame his religion’ and I would never, ever do that. The facts are that he himself said he legally punished her, that’s how it came about in the discussion here, because in what other way could he say it was legal? If he views the Islamic law as legal - to discipline but not kill - he would believe that he was behaving legally, and his actions went too far, but would also know that he would be charged per UK law.
The other adults are equally culpable and are rightly on trial alongside him, I don’t think anyone would disagree with that.
Jesus bleeping christ. Religion is an absolute cancer to this world.
That poor little girl.
Nah, religion and faith underpin some of the most heroic acts, humane reforms and beautiful works of art in the world. Abusive parents, and abusers in general - THEY are the absolute cancer.
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