The thing that struck me in all of this, was the proposal of councils (I thnk it was local councils) stepping in to prevent children suspected of being at harm from being removed from school to be home schooled.
If a child is suspected of being at harm, how about you step in and remove the fucking child from the parents until they can prove they are not a danger.
It’s not that mind boggling is it…Take the child away before hurt and injury…
I’m outraged by the fact that social workers and police who were aware of the risks to the child, but did nothing about it, aren’t inbthe dock too.
I’d string the cunts up alongside the murderers
Like the answer to most of these sorts of issues, it is largely one of underfunding. It is easy to look at this case in isolation and think it was obvious the kid needed help, but it is rightly difficult to take a kid from their parents. Factor in the lack of resources and support the social workers have and a lot will say they feel like they are just pissing into the wind.
I have no idea at all how defensible the SWers actions were within the context of the system she is forced to operate, and Im sure there is a good deal of genuinely bad work being done by people who no longer give a shit. But we need to view the entire system as something that exists to make us feel good about what we pretend it does without it giving the tools to actually do it. Much like the public defender’s office here in the US
I was actually posting something similar to your second para but needed to step away for a bit.
I’m interested as to why the system is fucked and why the community/society within which it is embedded doesn’t give two shits.
Putting individual heads on sticks won’t stop this from happening again.
And would probably serve to disincentivise people with the right motivations from getting into that kind of work to begin with.
There were fifty such deaths last year in the UK , that’s one a week. Unfortunately this type of barbarity is much more common than we’d like to admit.
Poor little girl never stood a chance from day one…
Story by Jess Glass
Abid to name judges involved in Sara Sharif’s family court proceedings before she was murdered by her father and stepmother will reach the Court of Appeal in January.
Following the convictions of Urfan Sharif and Beinash Batool, details from previous family court proceedings could be published related to the 10-year-old’s care before her death.
This included that Surrey County Council repeatedly raised “significant concerns” that Sara was likely to suffer physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her parents, amid allegations that her father was physically abusing her and her siblings.
Despite three sets of family court proceedings, the allegations were never tested in court, with Sara repeatedly returning to her parents’ care before finally being placed with her father and stepmother, Beinash Batool, at their home in Woking, Surrey, in 2019, where she was murdered in 2023.
Mr Justice Williams, who allowed the reporting from the historic proceedings, ordered that the media could not name the other judges involved.
This decision is now due to be challenged at the Court of Appeal, after a bid for permission to appeal was successfully brought by journalists Louise Tickle and Hannah Summers.
Granting the green light for the appeal, Sir Geoffrey Vos said on Thursday: “The appeal raises questions that are of considerable public importance and it is in the public interest that the Court of Appeal considers them.”
The senior judge said the two-day hearing will start on January 14 2025.
The documents previously disclosed to the media show that Surrey County Council first had contact with Urfan Sharif and Sara’s mother, Olga Sharif, in 2010 – more than two years before Sara was born – having received “referrals indicative of neglect” relating to her two older siblings, known only as Z and U.
This began several years of council involvement with the family which featured allegations of domestic abuse by both parents towards each other and the children.
The body of 10-year-old Sara Sharif was found under a blanket in a bunk bed in the family home in Woking
The authority began the first set of care proceedings in relation to Z and U in January 2013, which then involved Sara within a week of her birth.
Between 2013 and 2015, several more abuse allegations were made, with concerns raised for each of the three children and that the parents did “not fully accept the professional concerns and the need to work cooperatively with agencies”.
In November 2014, after Z was found with an arm injury consistent with an adult bite mark, Sara and her two siblings were taken into police protection, with Olga Sharif arrested and charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm and later accepting a caution.
The council applied for the children to be taken into emergency care, telling a family court it had “significant concerns” about the children returning to Urfan Sharif, “given the history of allegations of physical abuse of the children and domestic abuse with Mr Sharif as the perpetrator”.
A judge was told at a hearing that Sara was “observed to stand facing a wall” by carers and “is very small and doesn’t eat a lot”.
The judge described Sara’s behaviour as “disturbing”, but she was again placed back in the care of her parents under supervision.
The situation did not improve, with a court hearing in 2015 told that the authority was “extremely concerned” that Sara and U were “likely to suffer significant emotional and physical harm in their parents’ care”, as both alleged the other was violent.
Despite concerns, Sara was moved to her mother’s sole care under supervision in November 2015, while still having contact with her father, which remained the case until 2019.
She then moved to live with Urfan Sharif and his new partner, Batool, with reports that this followed Sara making accusations of physical abuse by her mother, which were also never proved.
A judge at Guildford Family Court approved the change, with Sara moving to the family home in Woking, Surrey.
It was there that she was subjected to years of abuse, which culminated in her murder in August last year.
On Tuesday, Urfan Sharif and Batool were jailed for life for her murder, with minimum terms of 40 years and 33 years.
Sara’s uncle, Faisal Malik, 29, who was found guilty of causing or allowing her death, was jailed for 16 years.
I’m not sure I see the public interest in naming the family court judges though.
If it was just one judge with a recurring pattern of straying from established procedure to protect abusers, then perhaps there would be a point. But in this case, given that different judges came to the same conclusion, I think it points towards a systemic issue rather than a single judge.
Anyone know why the Kyle Clifford case didn’t spark riots back in the summer?
I see in the latest developments he is also accused of raping one of the victims.
So ALL the judges are incompetent uncaring cunts?
Terrible news from the Christmas market in Magdeburg.
A person driving a car at very high speed, rammed the busy Christmas crowd. A probable terror attack. And many likely dead and injured.
There is a video of it here, but I will hide it for those who don’t want to view such distressing scenes:
The method used is very typical of ISIS or Al Qaida. Personally, I fear that the excuse is Palestine and German foreign policy. If so, that would be awful and have likely political repercussions and lead to increased support for the AFD.
I really hope this is some sort of accident, but it’s honestly very hard to believe from the video…
We live in shit times.
My sympathy and condolances to our German members.
There were warnings about increased risk (rather than a concrete threat) from the interior minister last month, and there have been border checks going back to the Euros in the summer.
Assuming that they thought the threat was external, Magdeburg is pretty central.
I know that there has been a strong police presence at our local Weihnachtsmarkt which is not far from the Dutch border. They have caught the perpetrator here, so I assume that there will be an update from the police in due course.
50 year old born in Saudi
I saw headlines earlier today of police presence in markets in the UK, but I don’t know if that was before this incident in Germany happened or after.
Must have been before.
Has that been confirmed anywhere? I couldn’t see anything on MDR or Tagesschau.
MDR did report that an explosive device had been recovered.
