{"id":318477,"date":"2025-11-14T08:04:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=318477"},"modified":"2025-11-16T08:20:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T08:20:27","slug":"too-woke-to-save-sara-sharif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=318477","title":{"rendered":"Too Woke to Save Sara Sharif"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will Jones \u2013 The Daily Sceptic Nov 13, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Woke attitudes and worries about being called racist have been blamed in part for the failure to save Sara Sharif from being tortured to death by her father, with officials failing to check under her hijab for injuries and neighbours afraid to report concerns. The Mail <\/em>has more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sara Sharif\u00a0was tortured to death by her father after a catalogue of blunders by authorities who missed bruises under her hijab as they feared causing offence, a report reveals today.<\/p>\n

The 10 year-old was beaten to death by Urfan Sharif after the risk posed by the serial domestic abuser was \u201coverlooked, not acted on and underestimated by almost all professionals\u201d despite his 16-year history of attacking women and children, according to a damning safeguarding review.<\/p>\n

In acts of brutality described by a judge as the worst\u00a0crime\u00a0he had ever encountered, Sara suffered over 100 injuries when she was tied up and hooded in a plastic bag secured with parcel tape around her head before being battered with a cricket bat, metal pole and a rolling pin, strangled until her neck broke, burnt with an iron and bitten.<\/p>\n

Following her death in August 2023, her 43 year-old father fled to his native\u00a0Pakistan\u00a0with his accomplice wife Beinash Batool, 30, before phoning 999 to confess to the killing, thinking he had got away with it.<\/p>\n

But he was captured and extradited to face trial at the Old Bailey where the murderous pair were jailed for life in December.<\/p>\n

Now a safeguarding review has identified a catalogue of missed opportunities to rescue Sara, concluding \u201cdifferent actions could and should have been taken and the system failed to keep her safe\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mistakes included failing to probe why the Muslim schoolgirl was suddenly wearing a hijab as professionals feared causing offence.<\/p>\n

The blistering report identifies how professionals failed to \u201cjoin the dots\u201d as evidence of Sharif\u2019s \u201cextensive\u201d domestic abuse was \u201clost within the system\u201d, inexperienced social workers under pressure to be \u201cspeedy\u201d did not carry out basic checks, safeguarding processes were not followed and home visits were delayed with fatal consequences.<\/p>\n

There was also confusion about home schooling policies and fears about breaching data protection laws meant evidence of abuse was not shared.<\/p>\n

Yet the review concludes that no one should face the sack as Sara\u2019s death was not caused \u201cby one specific malfunction within the safeguarding system\u201d, instead the \u201cblame for these killings lies with the perpetrators\u201d. \u2026<\/p>\n

Even before Sara\u2019s birth, Sharif was known for violence after being accused of attacking two children and three women, including Sara\u2019s mother Olga Domin.<\/p>\n

But he was never charged with any offence.<\/p>\n

After arriving in the UK on a student visa, the taxi driver held one woman at knifepoint, choked another with a belt and imprisoned one girlfriend for five days while he sent her passport off for a marriage application in a bid to secure residency in the UK.<\/p>\n

Yet Sharif managed to dodge blame and a child protection plan was closed in 2011 \u201cwithout any evidence that father had addressed his abusive behaviour\u201d.<\/p>\n

Social services were called repeatedly after Sharif was accused of biting, hitting and slapping children but no further action was taken after he blamed Ms Domin.<\/p>\n

Sara was taken into foster care in 2014 at the age of two, but despite the local authority believing she should be adopted, only a 12-month supervision order was put in place \u201cwithout adequate safeguards\u201d.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, her father spent his time drinking and gambling, eventually leaving Ms Domin to fly to Jhelum where he secretly married his cousin in an Islamic ceremony before he returned to embark on a third marriage with Batool.<\/p>\n

In 2016 Sharif was ordered to go on a domestic violence perpetrator programme where he \u201cadmitted to extensive and wide-ranging domestic abuse\u201d.<\/p>\n

But he only attended eight of the 26 sessions and experts said there was \u201cnot enough evidence\u201d he had changed his behaviour.<\/p>\n

Despite the report making \u201cquite shocking reading\u201d, its significance \u201cbecame lost within the system\u201d when a social worker failed to complete an analysis and it was not added to Sara\u2019s safeguarding report.<\/p>\n

A family court later decided to award Sharif custody in 2019 based on a flawed report by an inexperienced social worker which had critical \u201cgaps\u201d in information about Sharif as they were under \u201cpressure to file the report on time\u201d.<\/p>\n

Worth reading in full<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Surely at the very least the social worker who failed to complete the analysis that led to the 2016 domestic abuse report being \u201clost\u201d and the worker who filed the 2019 report with \u201cgaps\u201d that led to Sharif getting custody \u2013 plus the managers responsible for failing to ensure their staff were doing their jobs properly \u2013 should be named and fired. How will things improve if there are no consequences for such gross negligence leading directly to such a horrific outcome?<\/p>\n

The Telegraph <\/em>further reports<\/a> that Sara\u2019s neighbours \u201cdid not report concerns that she was being abused to police because they were scared of being called racist\u201d.<\/p>\n

Neighbours of the family were scared to report \u201cconcerns about what they heard\u201d in the Sharif household.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey feared being branded as being racist, especially on social media,\u201d the authors of the report wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile understanding their point of view, this is concerning that race was a bar to reporting possible child abuse and it needs to be overcome.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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Fear of being accused of being \u201cracist\u201d has led to many crimes going unreported, or not being properly investigated. The sexual abuse of underage girls by largely Asian men in Rotherham is a prime example. So too is the murder of Sara Sharif, who was tortured to death by her own father <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":318479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Race"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318478,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318477\/revisions\/318478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/318479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}