Police are investigating after Sara Sharif’s father was reportedly assaulted in prison weeks after being jailed for the 10-year-old girl’s murder.
Urfan Sharif was reportedly attacked in Belmarsh prison on New Year’s Day by two other inmates in a cell. reported the Sun newspaper.
Sharif reportedly suffered cuts to his neck and face and is understood to have received medical treatment inside the prison.
Sharif, 43 years old, and Sara’s stepmother were sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty at Previous Bailey last month of killing Sara at their home in Woking, Surrey.
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.”
Belmarsh is a category A prison in south-east London that houses some of the UK’s most dangerous prisoners.
According to Solar, Sharif was attacked with an improvised weapon.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said officers are investigating “an allegation that a prisoner was assaulted in Belmarsh”.
They added that “the 43-year-old man suffered non-life-threatening injuries.”
Sara was hooded, burned and beaten during a “torture campaign” that lasted two years before her body was found in the family home in August 2023.
Urfan Sharif was sentenced to a minimum of 40 years in prison for murder, while his wife Beinash Batool, 30, received a minimum of 33 years.
Sara’s uncle, Faisal Malik, 29, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for causing or allowing her death.
The three fled to Islamabad, Pakistan, with Sara’s five siblings, the day before her body was found, sparking an international manhunt.
They He hid there for four weeks before returning to the UK.where they were detained.
