Sara Sharif’s father and stepmother are facing life in prison after being found guilty of murdering the 10-year-old girl at the culmination of a horrifying campaign of domestic abuse. Urfan Sharif, 42, oversaw a “culture of violent discipline” within the family, and confessed during his trial to attacks on Sara with a metal pole and a cricket bat. When the little girl was found dead by police, tucked into an upstairs bunkbed, there were signs on her body of human bite marks, iron burns, and a litany of broken bones. The Old Bailey heard Sara had at times been tied up with tape and a hood was placed over her head, during prolonged periods of so-called ‘punishment’ which amounted to torture.