Sara Sharif: Questions to be asked

QUESTIONS must be answered over the "awful" case of 10-yearold Sara Sharif, who was murdered by her father and her stepmother, Sir Keir Starmer has said.

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The Prime Minister said there need to be safeguards for children, especially those being home-schooled, like Sara, and a Cabinet minister yesterday indicated that details on how these will be made stronger will be announced "imminently".

On Wednesday, Sara's father, Urfan Sharif, 42 (right), and her stepmother, Beinash Batool, 30, were found guilty of her murder. Her uncle, Faisal Malik, 29, who lived with them, was convicted of causing or allowing her death.

Sara was beaten to death at the family home in Surrey four years after taxi driver Sharif was awarded custody, despite accusations of abuse against him, jurors heard.