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Tristan Kirk and Rachael Burford

Sara Sharif judge raises alarm about 'dangerous' home schooling used to hide domestic abuse

Mr Justice Cavanagh raised the alarm about home schooling as he sentenced Sara Sharif’s killers - (PA)

A top judge who jailed the killers of Sara Sharif has raised the alarm about unsupervised home schooling, after it was used to hide signs that the ten-year-old was being abused.

Sara died at the hands of her own father, Urfan Sharif, and stepmother Beinash Batool, who subjected her to years of barbaric torture and beatings at the family home in Woking, Surrey.

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