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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Emily Pennink

Sara Sharif’s father is a ‘scumbag’, his own barrister tells jury

Urfan Sharif and Beinash Batool (Surrey Police/PA) - (PA Media)

Sara Sharif’s father is a “scumbag” and will be in “circles of hell for eternity” for what he did to his daughter – but only her stepmother knows how she died, jurors have been told.

On Friday, defence lawyers were giving closing speeches in the Old Bailey trial of taxi driver Urfan Sharif, 42, his wife Beinash Batool, 30, and brother Faisal Malik, 29, for the murder of the 10-year-old last August.

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