FAILED authorities missed at least 15 opportunities to place Sara Sharif in a safe home before she was beaten to death.
They included reports from her siblings of father Urfan Sharif’s violence as long as ten years before her death.
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Failed authorities missed at least 15 opportunities to place Sara Sharif in a safe home before she was beaten to death
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Sarah’s school also recorded the bruises on its internal computer, without formally passing these concerns on to social services Credit: PA
Social workers noticed burn marks on the children and were told that Sharif had slapped the child in the face and was waving a knife around the house.
Sarah’s school also recorded the bruises on its internal computer without formally passing the concern on to social services.
Children’s Commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza said it showed Britain’s child protection system had a “deep weakness” that “we have repeatedly failed to correct”.
And Sarah’s MP for Woking, Will Forster, called for an immediate inquiry into how the system failed her.
He said: “It is heartbreaking to think of the warning signs that were missed and allowed her to die at the hands of those who should have been protecting her.”
But Surrey County Council said: “It is clear that the perpetrators have gone to extreme lengths to hide the truth from everyone.”
It will now launch a safeguarding review, which is expected to appoint a cultural adviser.
Sara was known to social services from the day she was born in 2013 — but authorities missed 15 opportunities.
JANUARY 2013: Sara is placed under a child protection plan at birth as Urfan Sharif is accused of assaulting three women, including her mother, as well as hitting and biting two children.
But she was allowed to stay with her father.
Sara Sharif’s stepmother did not comment when police asked her if she loved or cared about the 10-year-old
FEBRUARY 22, 2013: A month after Sarah’s birth, social services and the police were told that Sharif had slapped the child in the face.
Nothing was done.
MAY 7, 2013: A social worker noticed a burn on a child’s leg.
Sharif did not report the incident and claimed it was a barbecue accident. Nothing was done.
OCTOBER 7, 2013: A child was seen with a burn caused by a household iron.
Sharif told social services that the child ran into the device.
No action was taken.
2013 TO 2014: The child told the social worker that Sharif broke the TV and hit Sara’s mother, Olga.
NOVEMBER 2014: Sara was accepted into a foster family after the child told a social worker about the bite mark.
But she later returned to live with her father after a family court hearing in October 2019, where social services recommended that Sara live with her father because that was her wish.
JANUARY 2015: Sharif was reported to social services for brandishing a knife in what he said was a zombie game at home.
Social workers noticed that Sharif was hitting and kicking Olga at home and threatened to kill himself.
FEBRUARY 2015: The child told their foster carer that Sharif used to hit them on the bottom with a belt.
In September of that year, the child was heard saying to Sharif: “When you’re at home, you hit and kick me every day.”
2015: Olga told social services that Sharif tightened a belt around her neck.
Around this time, social workers complained that Sharif was being coercive and degrading towards them.
Then a male social worker was appointed to the family.
DECEMBER 2016: The child told the social worker that he did not like Sharif because he hit them all over the body and left them with a lot of bruises.
Social workers saw Sara flinch when Sharif told her during supervised contact and appeared surprised when he stroked her.
6 JUNE 2022: Sara was reported by a teacher to have a bruise under her eye, using the school’s online child protection monitoring system.
Sara didn’t want to say what happened at first, before later saying she was hit by another child.
But the social service was not contacted.
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Sara was known to social services from the day she was born in 2013. Credits: PA
MARCH 10, 2023: Teacher saw bruises on Sarah’s face.
Sara said she fell on roller skates.
When she gave another story about the guard, the school referred social services.
Six days later, social services decided not to take any further steps.
It is understood that at this point there has been no contact between social services and Sarah’s family for four years.
Social services categorized this case as second priority and requested information from other agencies.
When nothing came back, the case was closed.
MARCH 20, 2023: A report was recorded in the school’s internal system after Sarah’s stepmother Beinash Batool heard her calling children on the playground “mother, fucking sister, cu**** and whore”.
But no details were passed on to social services.
MARCH 28, 2023: Batool claimed that the mark on Sarah’s face was caused by a pencil.
The teacher told the school guard.
APRIL 17, 2023: Sharif has decided to homeschool Sara.
School staff called the council for advice and were told they should provide a referral if there were any concerns.
The staff saw Sara later that day on her way to school and she seemed fine so they decided to drop it, even though she had been beaten up earlier that day.
She was never seen outside the house again.
Children’s Commissioner Dame Rachel said: “Her death is a heartbreaking reminder of the deep weaknesses in our child protection system which, as a country, we have time and again failed to correct.
“We’ve been here before — and each time we said ‘never again.’ Sarah’s death must also lead to an immediate change in the way we protect children like her.”
Rachael Wardell, Chief Executive for Children, Families and Lifelong Learning at Surrey County Council, said: “We are resolute in our commitment to safeguarding children and are determined to play a full and active role in the forthcoming review alongside partner agencies, to gain a thorough understanding of the wider circumstances Sarah’s tragic death.”
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Sharif fled to Pakistan after the horrors
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Beinash Batool also fled the country with Sharif and his brother Faisal Malik
Hijab used to hide injuries
By Ed Southgate
AUTHORITIES are facing questions over whether cultural and religious issues influenced decision-making in the Sara Sharif case.
A cultural adviser is expected to be appointed to review the safeguarding to examine how this would affect certain areas.
Ten-year-old Sara was forced to wear a hijab to cover her injuries – but her evil stepmother Beinash Batool didn’t.
Former neighbor Chloe Redwin told jurors she spoke to Sharif and Batool when she first saw Sara wearing the headscarf, commenting that she looked beautiful in it.
Ms Redwin said Sharif claimed Sara was “learning about religion” and “wanted to explore more”.
She also said the way Batool spoke to her about it was “abrupt, almost like she wanted the conversation to end.”
Another neighbor said he found it strange that Sara only had her eyes covered because no one else in the family wore Asian dress.
He never saw any injuries, but he couldn’t have known because she was so covered.
One witness who saw the bruised Sara said she was wearing a headscarf that was “very low”.
Instead of simply covering the hair, as would have been the norm, it was worn “very low, almost covering the forehead”.
Friends of Sarah’s biological mother Olga also claim that a Muslim social worker once told her to stop being “selfish”, to return to Poland and let Sarah enjoy being raised in a Muslim family.
‘Locked’ over man
SARA Sharif’s stepmother Beinash Batool was abused by her own family.
At 18, she was opposed to the man she wanted to marry and was held against her will for weeks at her uncle’s house in the UK.
Batool also attacked her grandfather.
Born into a “very traditional” Pakistani family with three sisters and a brother, she was said to have been instrumental in the courts deciding that Sara should live with her and Sharif.
But she refused to give teeth impressions after bites were found on Sara’s body.
A brother but an outsider
FAISAL Malik was born into a large family in Pakistan in 1995 — but he didn’t grow up with his brother Urfan.
In 2022, Malik traveled to the UK to study at the University of Portsmouth.
It was the first time he left Pakistan.
He was not close to Urfan who felt obliged to let him live with his family.
Malik, 29, worked at McDonald’s and would often leave home to escape the tension between Urfan and Batool.
His lawyer suggested that after the trio fled to Pakistan, Malik was the first to say he was returning to the UK.
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