Ex-girlfriend says Sara Sharif’s father saved her captive, held knife to her face and stalked her in Poland | EUROtoday

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A former girlfriend of Sara Sharif’s father says she was left terrified when he held her captive in his house, held a knife to her face and cruelly blamed her for a miscarriage.

She first encountered Urfan Sharif when she got here to the UK as a teen from Poland and entered a relationship with the kid killer, which she says quickly turned abusive as he got here jealous and controlling.

Reacting to his responsible conviction of torturing and murdering his 10-year-old daughter, the girl named Angelika instructed the Daily Mail: “All I was thinking is that could have been me, that could have been my child. It was a big shock – but also, I knew he was capable of it.”

Such was her terror of the taxi driver, now aged 42, that she fled out of a window when trapped inside his house, and returned to Poland to flee him.

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He had jealously watched her each transfer, stolen her passport and had tried to burn her initials onto his pores and skin, she says.

When she misplaced their baby, Angelika says he accused her of getting an abortion in a confrontation she described as “so painful”, which prompted her to go away the connection for good.

“That was the worst thing that ever happened to me,” she stated. “But now, in some dark way, I feel lucky that this did not happen to my child.”

She first met Sharif, who was 9 years her senior, whereas working at Burger King in Woking the place he was her shift supervisor. While their relationship labored effectively originally, she stated his jealousy would lead him to return to the flat in a rage, throwing her on the sofa and accusing her of dishonest.

In the winter of 2007, his behaviour worsened with Angelika saying that he stood over her with a folding chair earlier than selecting up a knife.

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“He held the knife right up to my neck and told me: ‘You are mine and only mine.’ He said that I am not going anywhere without him, and that if I ever talk to anyone again it will be the end of me,” she stated.

After escaping, she reported him to the police who arrested him and held him in a jail cell for 48 hours. “Urfan has two faces. One is kind, nice, very lovely and always apologises. But the second face, the one people don’t see, it is the devil,” she stated.

She ultimately retracted her assertion and returned to Poland, the place he continued to pester her and beg for her forgiveness, till she agreed to reconcile in March 2008. She quickly grew to become pregnant, information which delighted Sharif, however this is able to take a bitter flip after she misplaced the infant.

It was throughout a visit to Poland to obsessively stalk Angelika when he allegedly met Olga Domin, Sara’s mom, and invited her to return to the UK with him to pursue a relationship.

“Listening to the details that are released now, that he was abusing for such a long time. His own child. Oh my God, my heart is very broken. It’s broken into a million pieces,” she stated.

She added that she had adopted the trial every single day, and hoped that Sharif would obtain the “harshest punishment possible” for his crimes.

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“Because every day I was thinking that could have been me. I have this always on my mind now – always.

“If I had stayed in a relationship with him it would have got worse and worse and worse. That could have been my life.”

Sharif was discovered responsible of murdering Sara alongside his spouse Beinash Batool, after the schoolgirl was discovered lifeless at their household house in Surrey with over 70 accidents. She had additionally endured 25 fractures, a traumatic mind damage, scalding to her ankles and a burn to her buttocks from a home iron.

An investigation revealed she had been subjected to a “campaign of abuse” within the last years of her life, which had seen her tormented with a cricket bat and steel pole, and saved from faculty to cover her accidents.

Following a trial on the Old Bailey, each had been convicted and face life behind bars, whereas Sharif’s brother Faisal Malik was discovered responsible of inflicting or permitting her dying.