Sara Sharif

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Sara, aged 10, was found dead in the family home.

The police "want to speak" with Sara's father and his partner, who flew to Pakistan the day before Sara's body was found, and then phoned (don't know who) from there:

The call led officers to the house in Woking where they found the body of Sara who had sustained "multiple and extensive injuries", likely to have been caused over a sustained period of time.

Another child suffers at the hands of those who should care. I hope they get them back from Pakistan but I wonder what the chances of that are.

RIP, Sara.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-66563430

Sara's father SM and uncle have arrived in the UK

The orphanage the kids are in has 450 children already, I can't imagine they'd hold onto 5 kids they didn't need to.

Bbc news arrested on suspicion of murder

Sara's sm will not be released, I think we can guarantee that. At best she knowingly left a child dead in a property and continued to pervert the course of justice. And I very much doubt social.services would let her in charge of any child again.

I Imagine what Olga is going through knowing her son is now in care in Pakistan.

The children may not be fluent in any language but English. Poor kids, I wonder what will happen to them.

From the BBC

'9 September - Two men buy plane tickets for Mr Sharif, Ms Batool and Mr Malik to return to the UK from Sialkot

11 September - Police in Pakistan locate the five children at Mr Sharif's father's house in Jhelum

13 September - Sara's father, his wife and his brother leave Pakistan for the UK, travelling via Dubai. Their flight to London Gatwick lands just before 19:30 BST, five weeks after the trio left the UK'

This supports the idea that the police knew the children were with the grandfather previously. Then they may have got intel that the adults have booked return tickets without the children so took them to court so they were keeping tabs on them to stay in the UK's good books.

Exactly. My take is that The police were never looking for the children as they knew where they were the whole time, they were only looking really focused on finding the three suspects as they were the ones missing, the children were first removed as a scare tactic then when it worked, they removed the children properly as the UK authorities are liaising with them for the welfare of the children. And it won’t be about remaining in the UK’s good books, the police will have been under pressure from their superiors because this is a high profile case and also when you get decent officers in Pakistan, they do go far and beyond because many of them have daughters themselves and Sara was an innocent little girl

I didn't know she had another child with Sara's dad. That must be awful for her, thinking of her son in an orphanage in a foreign country.

I don't know why people keep saying this. English is spoken widely and very well in Pakistan. If you bothered to watch the video of the lady in charge of the children's centre on the BBC website you'd see that her English is better than alot of English people living in England.

Language is less of a barrier for small children than adults anyway, as it's easier to learn language. They likely speak some Urdu and have each other. But leaving their home and losing their family is awful for them. I hope they find some stability.

Are they due to appear at Guildford court today then?

It must be such a tricky situation deciding what's best for the children.

The 13 year old boy has a different mother to all his siblings. Depending on why Olga lost custody, I would imagine she wants her son back. That would separate him from his half siblings as well as him having lost his sister. At 13 years old this must be so traumatic for the poor boy.

I'm assuming for the other children, the only family they have are in Pakistan.

There will be very difficult decisions to make and a lot of lives affected by the actions of these 3 adults.

There's probably a thinking that the kids have so much trauma in a short time and at least being where they are gives them stability. Their dads family is all in Pakistan, their mums family are NC and Olga is in Poland so not as easy as it seems.

I really hope the mum’s British based family can take those kids and maybe facilitate contact for them with their brother while he lives with Olga.

If I were them, I wouldn’t want to stay in Pakistan because it’s so different compared to the UK and feels really weird when you’re used to everything here, so can’t imagine how those kids feel

They may have regularly visited Pakistan and know their grandfather and aunts well. As they are under 10 I think familiar adults is more important than location, although they'd miss their home in England. I don't know if they'd be kept together in the British care system.

That’s also a good point, when people regularly visit Pakistan they also tend to stay a good while too so I’m hoping they do know their aunts and grandparents really well. I just hope those children have a good safety net, familiar adults who can provide consistency and stability for them but all I can think about is Olga, I hope they make a decision that is fair on all of the children including the boy’s right to have contact with his mum

Trial set for Sept 2024.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sara-sharif-murder-court-live-30974382.amp

Bastards. I hope they get the longest sentence possible and their case sets a precedent that you can't commit a crime and try to hide and then negotiate capture for a lenient sentence or whatever bullshit they were trying to engage in. I hope their entire family and relatives are held accountable for poor Sara suffering at these evils bastards hands.

The way they treated her after her death- just leaving her alone speak absolutely volumes. The cultural and religious practice is to bury the dead as soon as possible. You can google why, but it’s extra important for women and girls. They just left her like she was nothing. It breaks my heart. What kind of set up did they have where they believed she wasn’t a person due funeral rites? What kind of guilt was so big that it superseded these customs? Shame on them.

And she remains unburied now in a mortuary fridge - likely will stay there for further weeks/months

news.sky.com/story/sara-sharifs-father-told-police-ive-killed-my-daughter-after-fleeing-to-pakistan-court-hears-13233242

Thanks for updating.

Absolutely tragic, that poor, beautiful girl 😰