Sara Sharif’s Polish family has blasted her killers as ‘beasts’ and called for them to ‘rot in prison’ for her murder.
The 10-year-old schoolgirl died after her father Urfan Sharif won custody and launched a campaign of sadistic abuse on her with his wife Beinash Batool.
British authorities allowed Sara’s Polish mother, Olga Domin, to be cut out of her life as the evil couple bound, burnt and beat the young girl until her death on August 8 last year.
Jurors convicted Sharif, 42, and Batool, 30, of murder following a six-week trial at the Old Bailey.
Sara’s uncle, Faisal Malik, 29, who lived with them and five other children in a tiny two-bed flat in Woking, Surrey, was convicted of causing or allowing the death of a child.
Sara’s mother, who has since returned to Poland with her daughter’s body, was too upset to talk, but her relatives hit out at the killers.
An uncle, who asked not to be named, told the Mail: ‘It’s been a year since Sara was buried, we are just trying to live our lives now. But what matters is that they rot in prison.’
Ms Domin, 37, met Sharif in 2009 after he went looking for another Polish ex-partner who had fled him after he held her captive.
They married quickly but afterwards she claimed Sharif was abusive to her from the start of the relationship, once throttling her with a belt.
Sara’s mother Olga (right) who has since returned to Poland with her daughter’s body, was too upset to talk, but her relatives hit out at the killers
Sara Sharif was found with at least 71 external injuries shortly before she was killed
Olga Domin, 37, (pictured) met Sharif in 2009 after he went looking for another Polish ex-partner who had fled him after he held her captive
It got so bad that she had to shelter in a women’s refuge with Sara for six months in 2015.
Yet in 2019 Sharif won custody of Sara following a complaint to social services claiming Ms Domin was abusive.
Together, Batool and Sharif would tie up Sara, hit her with a cricket bat and burn her with an iron. She was found with 71 external injuries after she died.
Ms Domin’s mother, Sylwia Kurz, said the details that came out during the Old Bailey trial have left her daughter broken.
‘I suspect that Beinash was a torturer, but she was also beaten, just like Olga,’ she told Polish TV channel Uwaga.
‘I suspect she was taking her frustration out on Sara. I think she is on par with Urfan, they are both the same. These are not people, these are beasts.’
Ms Domin’s mother, Sylwia Kurz, (pictured) revealed how the details that came out during the Old Bailey trial have left her daughter broken
Sara’s mother Ms Domin previously spoke out on Polish TV programme Uwaga
Urfan Shairf (left) and Beinash Batool (right) were found guilty of murder. The pair speaking after they fled to Pakistan to evade justice
Sara died after her father Urfan Sharif won custody and launched a campaign of sadistic abuse with Batool
On what her granddaughter had to endure, she said: ‘I can’t understand how much Sara went through, how much pain she had to go through.
‘She must have suffered so much. How is it possible to be such a degenerate?’
Ms Domin was not called as a witness and neither she nor her mother attended the trial as the evidence of what happened to Sara was too painful for them to hear.
‘How can we sit there and listen to all this?’ said Ms Kurz. ‘We are going through hell here and I am mentally exhausted.
‘Please imagine me sitting there on that bench and listening, I wouldn’t be able to cope, but do you think Olga would be able to cope?
‘As a grandmother, I am mentally exhausted, and imagine how my daughter feels when she buried her own child.
‘I don’t know if I could sit there and look at their faces. These are wounds that never heal and never will.’
10-year-old Sara was found dead in the family home in Woking, Surrey – she had at least 71 injuries
The 15 missed opportunities to save Sara
1. January 2013 – Sara Sharif is made subject to a child protection plan at birth due to her father Urfan Sharif being accused of attacking three women including her mother, as well as hitting and biting two children. But she is allowed to remain with her father.
2. February 22, 2013 – Social services and police are told Sharif has slapped a child around the face. Nothing is done.
3. May 7, 2013 – A social worker spots a burn mark on a child’s leg. Sharif had failed to report the incident and claimed it was a BBQ accident. Nothing is done.
4. October 7, 2013 – A child is seen with a burn mark sustained from a domestic iron. Sharif told social services the child had knocked into the iron. No action is taken
5. 2013-2014 – A child tells a social worker that Sharif smashed up a TV and punched Sara’s mother Olga.
6. November 2014 – Sara is taken into foster care after a child tells a social worker about a bite mark. But she later returns to live with her father following a family court hearing in October 2019 where social services recommend she should stay with him because that is her preference.
7. January 2015 – Sharif is reported to social services for waving a knife around at home in what he said was a ‘zombie’ game. Social workers note that Sharif hit and kicked Olga at home and the pair threatened to kill each other.
8. February 2015 – A child tells their foster carer that Sharif used to hit them on the bottom with a belt. In September the child is heard to say to Sharif, ‘when you’re at home you hit and kick me every day’.
9. 2015 – Olga tells social services that Sharif tightened a belt around her neck. Around this time social workers complain Sharif is coercive and derogatory towards them.
10. December 2016. A child tells a social worker they don’t like Sharif because he punched them all over their body and gave them lots of bruises. Social workers observe that Sara flinches when Sharif tells her off during supervised contact and she seems surprised when he cuddles her.
11. June 6, 2022 – A teacher reports that Sara has a bruise under her eye to the school’s online child protection monitoring system. Sara initially will not say what happened, before claiming another child hit her.
12. March 10, 2023 – A teacher sees bruises on her face. Sara says she had fallen on roller skates. When Sara gives a different story to a safeguarding lead, the school makes a referral to social services. Six days later social services decide to take no further action.
13. March 20, 2023- A report is logged on the school’s internal system after Sara’s stepmother Beinash Batool is overheard referring to children as “motherf***er, sister f***er, b**** and whore” in the playground.
14. March 28, 2023 – Batool claims to a teacher that a mark on Sara’s face is caused by a pen. The teacher tells the school’s safeguarding lead.
15. April 17, 2023 – Sharif decides to home-school Sara. The school rings the council for advice and is told it should make a referral if there are concerns. Staff see Sara later that day at school pick-up and she seems fine so they decide against it, even though she had been beaten earlier that day. She is never seen outside the home again.