Perhaps immigrants need to be educated on the fact that criminals in prisons don't like child molesters and murderers, even if some in the justice system don't mind.
Police investigating attack on father imprisoned for killing daughter Sara Sharif
Jan. 3 (UPI) -- A British man convicted of murdering his 10-year-old daughter, Sara Sharif, suffered neck and face wounds after being ambushed in prison by two fellow inmates with a makeshift weapon fashioned from the jagged lid of a can of tuna.
Urfan Sharif, 43, was seriously injured in the attack inside London's maximum-security Belmarsh Prison in south London and was receiving medical treatment in the prison's infirmary, The Sun newspaper reported.
Sharif was attacked New Year's Day, two weeks into a 40-year minimum sentence for murdering Sara at the family home in Surrey in 2023 after subjecting her to months of appalling physical abuse.
The tabloid newspaper quoted a source as saying the pair attacked Sharif because they were sickened by his crime.
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"Sharif has tried to keep his head down since coming into the jail, but word quickly got round about who he was," the source said.
"Inmates were not happy he is in there with them and, although the other prisoners are in for heinous crimes, a lot of them don't like people who attack children."
The prison houses a high proportion of inmates serving long sentences for murder, serial killings and terrorism offenses.
The Metropolitan Police said it was investigating an alleged assault at the prison, without naming Sharif, but said the victim's injuries were not serious.
"Police are investigating an allegation that a prisoner was assaulted at HMP Belmarsh on [Jan. 1]. The victim, a 43-year-old man, suffered non-life threatening injuries," police said.
Sharif was found guilty of murder along with Sara's stepmother, Beinash Batool, 30, who is serving a minimum 33-year term, on Dec. 11 after an eight-week trial at the Old Bailey in London.
Sara's uncle, Faisal Malik, was acquitted of murder but convicted of causing or allowing the death of a child and sentenced to 16 years.
All three fled to Pakistan after Sara was killed in August 2023 leaving her body wrapped in a sheet on a bed in the family home, sparking an international manhunt.
They evaded authorities in Pakistan for four weeks before flying home on their own accord to London's Gatwick Airport where police were standing by to arrest them.
A post-mortem revealed that Sara sustained 71 "multiple and extensive injuries" over her body including burns, bruises and human bite marks along with 25 fractures, including 11 to her spine.
The jury heard Sara led a torturous "daily living hell" over the course of several months at the hands of her father who had been described as a "controlling, violent bully."
Many chances to rescue Sara were missed by authorities, the most recent after her teachers alerted child protective services about bruises on the 10-year-old's face in April 2023. An investigation produced no definitive outcome but the school was instructed to monitor Sara, prompting her father and stepmother to remove her from school.
Sara was never seen in public again and four months later she was dead.
Sara Sharif: England children's rights officer calls for proper oversight of home-schooling
Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Permission to remove children from class for homeschooling should never be granted where abuse concerns have been flagged, the children's commissioner for England said Thursday.
Dame Rachel de Souza made the call a day after Urfan Sharif and Beinash Batool were convicted of murdering Sara Sharif whom they had withdrawn from school in April 2023 after her teachers alerted child protective services about bruises on the 10-year-old's face.
An investigation produced no definitive outcome but the school was instructed to monitor Sara, prompting her father and stepmother to remove her from school.
Four months later Sara was dead, beaten to death by Sharif who then fled the country with Batool, their five other children and Sara's uncle, Faisal Malik.
Malik was acquitted of murder but convicted of causing or allowing the death of a child at the end of an eight week trial at the Old Bailey.
"If a child is the suspected victim of abuse, they cannot be educated at home. Being in school is a safeguard. They are safer under the eyes of teachers," Dame Rachel told the BBC.
"We cannot let a child who is at risk at home go and be educated at home. It's madness."
She also demanded that proposed government "children's wellbeing" legislation should mandate a register of all pupils being homeschooled so that authorities can keep track of children to help keep them safe.
"We need proper oversight of children being educated at home, through the long-promised register of children not in school and by requiring councils to sign off on home educating requests for some of the most vulnerable children," Dame Rachel said in a statement.
Dame Rachel was also highly critical of what she said was a lack of sharing of data between agencies -- health, social services, education authorities and police -- and between different parts of the country that was hobbling efforts to figure out which children were at risk of abuse.
Surrey County Council, the authority responsible for the area of southern England where Sara was killed in Woking, announced an independent statutory investigation into what went wrong in Sara's case looking at all professionals who had contact with the Sharif family.
Announcing the Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review, SCC children's services exective director Rachael Wardell, pledged the council would fully cooperate in the effort but refused to comment on any potential missteps until it was complete.
"Sara's death is incredibly distressing and we share in the profound horror at the terrible details that have emerged during the trial. We cannot begin to comprehend the suffering that poor Sara endured at the hands of members of her family who should have loved, protected, and cared for her," Wardell said in a statement.
"The focus of the trial has been on the evidence needed to secure the convictions of those responsible for Sara's death. This means that until the independent safeguarding review concludes, a complete picture cannot be understood or commented upon.
"What is clear from the evidence we've heard in court is that the perpetrators went to extreme lengths to conceal the truth from everyone.
"We are resolute in our commitment to protecting children, and we are determined to play a full and active part in the forthcoming review alongside partner agencies, to thoroughly understand the wider circumstances surrounding Sara's tragic death," said Wardell.
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