Sara Sharif received 'crazy' beatings because she had a ‘jinn’, stepmother claimed
dailyrecord.co.ukSara Sharif’s stepmother blamed the 10-year-old’s naughty behaviour for the beatings she received, even suggesting she had a “jinn in her”, a court has heard.Beinash Batool, 30, Sara’s father Urfan Sharif, 42, and uncle Faisal Malik, 29, are accused of carrying out a campaign of abuse culminating in her murder on August 8 last year.
Batool and Sharif have blamed each other for the violence in the family home in Woking, Surrey, with university student Malik claiming he was not involved.On Thursday, jurors heard a series of WhatsApp messages between 2020 and 2023 in which Batool relayed to her sister Qandeela Saboohi beatings Sharif had allegedly carried out on Sara.
They were accompanied by pictures of a grim-faced and bruised Sara, with the message: “Look what he’s doing. Delete the pictures.”Batool repeatedly complained to her sister that Sharif was hitting Sara for being “naughty” “rude and rebellious” and because she had cut up his clothes, hidden keys and torn up documents.
Ms Saboohi advised her to listen to the Koran, and when Batool talked about going to the police, told her to calm down.As early as February 2020, Batool described Sharif as going on a “rampage” after spilling hot tea, saying he was “possessed”.
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