London: A British court on Thursday upheld a long jail sentence, handed over to the father and stepmother of a 10-year-old British-Pakistani girl, who was killed after years of torture and misconduct.
The test of Urfan Sharif and his wife Beinash Batul treated the waves of rebellion in the UK in a terrible manner.
There was also anger on how bright, bubbly youth had failed to be in charge of his care by young officers.
Sharif, 43, Batul, 30, and his uncle, Faisal Malik, 29, all lost dialects to appeal against their sentences on Thursday.
The court also refused a petition by the Solicitor General’s office to punish Sharif to a complete life.
Sara’s father was sentenced to 40 years in jail in December for her murder, while her stepmother was ordered to stay in jail for at least 33 years.
His uncle was sentenced to 16 years, who was found guilty for his death or permission.
Sara’s body was found on bed in August 2023 at family house, which was covered with broken bones and covered with injuries and burnt with an electric iron and boiling water.
Demanding to reduce Sharif’s tenure, advocate Naeem Majid Mian argued that although Sara’s treatment was “frightening”, it did not punish her 40 years.
He said, “There was no intention of killing … and (death) was not predetermined,” he said.
But one of the top legal officials of the government, the documents submitted by the Solicitor General to the court sentenced Sharif indefinitely.
Advocate Tom Little said in a lesson submission, “It has been presented that it was wrong to not implement the order of the entire life on the judge criminal.”
A lawyer of Sara’s stepmother also told the court that her 33 -year sentence was very long and she “did not reflect her role properly”.
Rejecting Sharif’s appeal, the supreme ranked judge Lady Chief Justice Suu Carr in England and Wales said: “We cannot see any logical basis to challenge the trial judge’s conclusion.”
While sentenced in December after the test, Judge John Kaivangh said Sara was subjected to “acts of excessive cruelty”, but that Sharif and Batul did not show “a piece of repentance”.
She considered Sara as “useless” and “a Skivavie”, as she was a girl. And because he was not a child of Batul by birth, the stepmother failed to protect her, she said.
“This poor child was repeatedly battered with great strength.”
‘The most distressed case’
A post mortem examination of Sara’s body revealed that she had 71 fresh injuries and at least 25 broken bones.
He was beaten with a metal pole and cricket bat and “trus up” with a “grotes combination of parcel tape, a rope and a plastic bag above his head.
A hole was cut in the bag so that he could breathe and he was left for the soil in the diapers because it was prevented from using the bathroom.
The police called the case one of the “most difficult and disturbing”.
The next day after Sara’s death, the three adults flew their home in Woking in South -West, London, and flew to Pakistan with five other children.
Her father, a taxi driver, left behind a handwritten note, stating that she was not to kill her daughter.
After a month on the run, all three returned to Britain and were arrested after landing. There are five other children in Pakistan.
The UK is angry that Sara’s cruel treatment was remembered by social services, when her father withdrew her from school four months before she died.
Sharif and his first wife, Olga, were well known for social services.
In 2019, a judge decided to take care of Sharif to Sara and an elder brother, despite the history of his misconduct.
The school had raised an alarm about Sara’s case thrice, especially after reaching the orbit wearing a hijab, which she tried to cover the mark on her body which she refused to convince.
