Social workers left woman-hating brute Urfan Sharif free to kill his petrified daughter Sara despite a shocking history of domestic violence allegations.
Sharif regularly beat and abused his partners and once even attacked a one-month-old baby, yet Sara and her siblings were left at his mercy as authorities failed to intervene despite repeated red-flag warnings.
Police repeatedly arrested him for alleged abuse of women and children, including assaulting the baby whilst two children suffered bruises, slaps, bites and burns to their legs and face, including marks made with an iron.
One of the youngsters was also left bruised after being punched all over their body.
Years before Sara’s murder, Sharif was accused of choking one woman and tightening a belt around her neck during a fit of rage.
The taxi driver, 41, also threatened another victim with a knife but evaded prosecution after Sharif insisted his accusers were all liars.
Social services and police were alerted to allegations of violence dating back more than a decade yet on each occasion he hoodwinked the authorities into believing his version of events.
And even when Sara was taken out of school after teachers raised concerns, social services failed to remove the children to safety.
Instead they closed an investigation into the family less than a week after her teachers spotted bruises and referred her to the council.
The school made the referral to Surrey county council’s social services on March 16, 2023, after she gave different explanations to different members of staff about marks on her face.
She initially told the head teacher she had fallen on her roller skates but later claimed she had been punched by a child and refused to lift her head.
Six days later, staff decided not to intervene and Sara was withdrawn from school within four weeks to be “home schooled”. Four months later, the ten-year-old girl was found dead at home having suffered 71 external injuries, from being bitten, burned with an iron and battered with a cricket bat, belt and a pole by her monster dad.
Sharif, who moved to the UK from Pakistan on a student visa in 2003, is said to have travelled to Poland in search of a woman to marry so that he could obtain an EU passport.
He claimed he had only previously been charged and convicted of stealing £1,700 while working as a shift manager at McDonald’s.
But he was arrested after three “separate, unconnected” Polish women reported him to the police for controlling behaviour and holding them against their will.
In 2007 one 18-year-old woman told police that Sharif had taken her passport and smashed up her phone shouting: ‘Shut your f****** mouth or I will kill you’.
She claimed that Sharif held her at knifepoint and threatened to kill her before she managed to escape.
In 2009 another woman was held captive for five days in Sharif’s home and bombarded her with threatening messages. The girlfriend also told police Sharif had stopped her from seeing her friends and taken her passport but after he denied the allegations no further action was taken by the police
As Sharif’s student visa was about to expire in November 2009 he married a Polish woman called Olga, but he later secretly married a second woman in Pakistan.
Caroline Carberry, KC, defending Sharif’s fellow murderer Batool, told the Old Bailey that social services were concerned that Olga was a vulnerable woman with possible learning difficulties who was at risk of exploitation.
She also told jurors how social workers observed how Sara would “flinch” when told off and was surprised if she was cuddled by her father.
Within a year he had been arrested for assaulting her but again avoided prosecution. Female social workers also accused Sharif of being coercive and abusive towards them, yet failed to act until it was too late and Sara was found dead at her home in Woking, Surrey on August 10, 2023.
