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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Callum Parke

Naming judges from Sara Sharif cases ‘like blaming Titanic lookout’, judge says

Sara Sharif suffered more than 25 broken bones, iron burns, scalding marks and human bites during a campaign of abuse spanning at least two years before her murder (Surrey Police/PA) - (PA Media)

Trying to hold professionals involved in historic court proceedings related to Sara Sharif accountable for her death is “equivalent to holding the lookout on the Titanic responsible for its sinking”, a High Court judge has said

Mr Justice Williams said in a judgment published on Friday that there was an “apparent absence of personal or individual culpability” from professionals, including social workers and judges, involved in three sets of family court proceedings related to the 10-year-old and her siblings, which concluded four years before her death.

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