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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Aine Fox

Murdered Sara Sharif failed by system that missed opportunities to save her

Sara Sharif was just 10 when she died at the hands of her father and stepmother - (Surrey Police)

Murdered 10-year-old Sara Sharif was “failed by the safeguarding system” in multiple ways throughout her short life, according to a review which said her father’s domestic abuse had been overlooked and underestimated.

The report into numerous missed opportunities concluded that while a “great deal of information” was available to various authorities, even safeguarding professionals appeared to have been “groomed and manipulated” by her killer father, Urfan Sharif.

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