Sara Sharif’s father attacked in prison, throat slashed with tuna can lid
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Urfan Sharif, who was jailed last month for the murder of his 10-year-old daughter Sara Sharif, has been attacked in Britain’s Belmarsh Prison.
Urfan Sharif was ambushed by two inmates in a cell at the prison armed with the jagged lid of a tuna tin on New Year’s Day.
A Prison Service spokesperson said: “Police are investigating an assault on a prisoner at HMP Belmarsh on January 1. It would be inappropriate to comment further while they investigate.”
The 43-year-old had suffered cuts to his neck and face and received medical treatment inside the prison. It is understood Urfan Sharif did not need to be taken to hospital.
A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said officers are probing “an allegation that a prisoner was assaulted at Belmarsh”, adding that “the 43-year-old suffered non-life-threatening injuries”.
Sharif and Sara’s stepmother, Beinash Batool, were jailed for life in December for years of horrific “torture” and “despicable” abuse that culminated in the 10-year-old’s murder.
The court heard that Sara suffered “unimaginable pain, misery and anxiety” as she was repeatedly beaten, burned, bitten and restrained at the family home in Woking, Surrey.
Urfan Sharif was handed a minimum term of 40 years and Batool was given 33 years. Sara’s uncle, Faisal Malik, 29, who was found guilty of causing or allowing her death, was jailed for 16 years.
In a televised sentencing at the Old Bailey, Mr Justice Cavanagh said Sara’s death “was the culmination of years of neglect, frequent assaults and what can only be described as torture”, mainly at the hands of Sharif.
The senior judge said her “despicable treatment” took place in “plain sight and in front of the rest of the family”.
Reporter Asad Malik