Suffering and fear’ as she was regularly beaten, burnt, bitten, and confined at the family home, the court heard during Urfan’s trial last month.
In addition to her father and stepmother, Sara’s uncle, 29-year-old Faisal Malik, was convicted of causing or permitting her murder and sentenced to 16 years in prison.
Sara’s death “was the culmination of years of neglect, frequent assaults, and what can only be described as torture,” mostly at the hands of her father,
According to Mr. Justice Cavanagh’s broadcast sentence. This assault occurred “in plain sight and in front of the rest of the family,”
The court said of the 10-year-old. Urfan claimed to have “legally punished” the little girl when he phoned the police at the scene of Sara’s death.
When police got on the scene, they discovered that she had sustained burns, “probable human bite marks,” shattered bones, and severe bruises.
