Sara Sarif Father and partner realise a video

I have a lot of close Muslim friends and none of their daughters wear make up at such a young age .
Maybe it was for a school play .

It's horrendous to read that she suffered long term injuries .

Eventually , her step mother and father will be held accountable .

MOnica / the impression given is the photograph was taken in her fathers care - maybe that’s incorrect
I’m The photographs of her playing in the garden of the house where she died she’s wearing western clothes, shorts, shirt sleeve shirts and dresses. At odds with his statement that she’d been bullied for wearing hijab so removed from school

I am not sure I entirely agree with you Whitewave. To be wearing make-up doesn't necessarily mean that she is being sexualised. The style of dress she was wearing, was very much a child's dress and the make up looked just the kind of make-up little girls wear. Her mother is not British and you do not know how her culture uses make-up with young girls

It's a red flag, we can pretend it's not as I have heard some do but that's what it is.

Poor child. What a very sad short life.

That’s worrying lots of us as it is over on mumsnet.
I’m no expert but I live in a town with a large Pakistani Muslim community. Generally, girls are modestly dressed and you don’t see primary school children either dressed as Sara was, certainly not with makeup.

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The way she mentions the death of a child!!

No tears, no shock, no despair from him or her. They are only upset at the inconvenience to the family.

They chose to abandon the child’s body and fled to Pakistan - they are still breathing and she is not. Just horrific.

This.
I hope there will be justice in the end, however long it takes.

Perhaps I’m misunderstanding a cultural aspect here? But does the child appear to have a lot of makeup on? It worries me when I see this on children as if they are being sexualised.

I’ve just read on line that in 2019, the Family Court awarded custody to the father, with mum having regular contact

Allsorts, they have Sara’s brother with them and their own children. Those children must be considered at risk and they may be British citizens

Ch4 news had an interview with birth mother, Olga. She said they shared custody until the step mother told her the children didn’t want to see her. Olga claims social services told her they couldn’t do anything if the children refused to see her. Olga looked exhausted. Her own mother wept, describing that Olga had a breakdown during this period.
All that we’ve heard from children’s services and the police is they had brief historical involvement.

As a number of us commented on the earlier thread, there’s a complex, tragic story here.

Nazir Afzal was interviewed. He could see no legitimate reason for the 3 adults leaving the country. He hopes they will cooperate as they say they will but believes it could be 2-3 years before these 3 are returned (he mentioned political pressure may help)

Meanwhile, Olga wants her son returned to her care, he’s somewhere in Pakistan - the legal situation around that sounds complex

I couldn’t believe what I heard. Hope they get what they deserve in Pakistan, that they don’t come back here which is what they want.. No one knows what that poor child went through and there will never be true justice for her. Let them stay there.

I’m not convinced she misnamed incident for accident. My impression is of a cold self centred woman out to attempt to blame the Pakistani police for the way they’re refusing to bo-operate with them.

Yes, that poor child

Yes implausible is a good description. That poor child.

The way she mentions the death of a child!!

No tears, no shock, no despair from him or her. They are only upset at the inconvenience to the family.

They chose to abandon the child’s body and fled to Pakistan - they are still breathing and she is not. Just horrific.

The same applies if they meant accident not incident.

Given that the post mortem report revealed that Sara had "suffered multiple and extensive injuries" that were "likely to have been caused over a sustained and extended period of time".

her father and step-mother's description of her death as being the result of am 'incident' sounds, how shall put it? Implausible.

Her English does seem quite good, reading from a prepared statement. However, I think that she does not realise the difference between "incident" and "accident". The way that sentence was constructed "incident" does not make much sense. I am not defending them, they should have stayed in the UK and faced up to the situation, especially as the Pakistani police are seen as so terrifying.

Sorry I misspelled her surname it is Sharif.