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Social employees left woman-hating brute Urfan Sharif free to kill his petrified daughter Sara regardless of a surprising historical past of home violence allegations.

Sharif frequently beat and abused his companions and as soon as even attacked a one-month-old child, but Sara and her siblings had been left at his mercy as authorities didn’t intervene regardless of repeated red-flag warnings.

Police repeatedly arrested him for alleged abuse of ladies and youngsters, together with assaulting the child while two youngsters suffered bruises, slaps, bites and burns to their legs and face, together with marks made with an iron.

One of the kids was additionally left bruised after being punched throughout their physique.

Years earlier than Sara’s homicide, Sharif was accused of choking one lady and tightening a belt round her neck throughout a match of rage.

The taxi driver, 41, additionally threatened one other sufferer with a knife however evaded prosecution after Sharif insisted his accusers had been all liars.

Social providers and police had been alerted to allegations of violence relationship again greater than a decade but on every event he hoodwinked the authorities into believing his model of occasions.

And even when Sara was taken out of faculty after academics raised issues, social providers didn’t take away the youngsters to security.

Instead they closed an investigation into the household lower than every week after her academics noticed bruises and referred her to the council.

The faculty made the referral to Surrey county council’s social providers on March 16, 2023, after she gave completely different explanations to completely different members of employees about marks on her face.

She initially instructed the pinnacle trainer she had fallen on her curler skates however later claimed she had been punched by a baby and refused to carry her head.

Six days later, employees determined to not intervene and Sara was withdrawn from faculty inside 4 weeks to be “home schooled”. Four months later, the ten-year-old woman was discovered useless at house having suffered 71 exterior accidents, 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 pupil visa in 2003, is claimed to have travelled to Poland in quest of a girl to marry in order that he may receive an EU passport.

He claimed he had solely beforehand been charged and convicted of stealing £1,700 whereas working as a shift supervisor at McDonald’s.

But he was arrested after three “separate, unconnected” Polish girls reported him to the police for controlling behaviour and holding them towards their will.

In 2007 one 18-year-old lady instructed police that Sharif had taken her passport and smashed up her cellphone shouting: ‘Shut your f****** mouth or I’ll kill you’.

She claimed that Sharif held her at knifepoint and threatened to kill her earlier than she managed to flee.

In 2009 one other lady was held captive for 5 days in Sharif’s house and bombarded her with threatening messages. The girlfriend additionally instructed police Sharif had stopped her from seeing her pals and brought her passport however after he denied the allegations no additional motion was taken by the police

As Sharif’s pupil visa was about to run out in November 2009 he married a Polish lady known as Olga, however he later secretly married a second lady in Pakistan.

Caroline Carberry, KC, defending Sharif’s fellow assassin Batool, instructed the Old Bailey that social providers had been involved that Olga was a susceptible lady with doable studying difficulties who was vulnerable to exploitation.

She additionally instructed jurors how social employees noticed how Sara would “flinch” when instructed off and was stunned if she was cuddled by her father.

Within a yr he had been arrested for assaulting her however once more prevented prosecution. Female social employees additionally accused Sharif of being coercive and abusive in the direction of them, but didn’t act till it was too late and Sara was discovered useless at her house in Woking, Surrey on August 10, 2023.