The judges who oversaw household court docket proceedings involving Sara Sharif within the years earlier than her loss of life have been named following a Courtroom of Enchantment ruling.
Judges Alison Raeside, Peter Nathan and Sally Williams have been all concerned in proceedings associated to the 10-year-old between 2013 and 2019.
Sara was positioned within the dwelling of her father, Urfan Sharif, and her stepmother, Beinash Batool, following the final of three units of proceedings.
Decide Raeside, who stays an energetic choose, handled nearly all of the hearings associated to Sara.
Judges Nathan and Williams – who’ve each since retired – have been concerned to a lesser diploma.
A number of media organisations appealed towards a restriction on naming judges.
Sara, 10, was murdered by Sharif and Batool in Woking, Surrey, in 2023. They have been jailed for all times final 12 months.
The primary set of proceedings heard Surrey County Council had a “variety of considerations in relation to the care that (Olga Sharif) and Mr Sharif present Z and U (Sara’s siblings) and are probably to offer to Sara”.
Decide Raeside authorised the kids being positioned below supervision orders, which means they stayed of their mother and father’ care.
That call was supported by the council, the kids’s guardian and Sara’s mother and father.
In November 2014, after baby Z was discovered with an arm harm in line with an grownup chew mark, Sara and her two siblings have been taken into police safety.
Olga Sharif, Sara’s mom, later accepted a warning after being charged with assault occasioning precise bodily hurt.
The next day, Decide Raeside prolonged the identical order for per week, with Decide Williams making an interim care order for Sara and one in every of her siblings as proceedings continued in 2015.
That was Decide Williams’s solely involvement within the case.
On the finish of the identical set of proceedings, a listening to earlier than Decide Raeside was advised the native authority was “extraordinarily involved” that Sara and baby U have been “more likely to undergo vital emotional and bodily hurt of their mother and father’ care”, as each alleged the opposite was violent.
Regardless of these allegations, nonetheless, the council nonetheless concluded “the danger will be managed” if Sara was returned to her mom’s care, with supervised contact along with her father.
That call was supported by the kids’s guardian, whereas Decide Raeside authorised the plan in Might 2015.
Sara was moved to the property the place she was later murdered in 2019.
She had made accusations of bodily abuse by her mom, which have been by no means confirmed.
In a report for a ultimate listening to in October 2019, a social employee advised the court docket they assessed that “Urfan and Beinash are capable of meet Sara and (U’s) wants for security, stability, emotional heat and steerage”, including that Urfan Sharif “seems to have the kids’s welfare at coronary heart”.
The transfer was additionally supported by the kids’s guardian and Sara’s mother and father and was authorised by Decide Raeside.
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The press was beforehand barred from reporting the names of the judges and different professionals concerned within the case.
The Excessive Courtroom dominated they’d “acted throughout the parameters that legislation and social work follow set for them”.
Nonetheless, the Courtroom of Enchantment dominated final week that the media might identify the judges within the pursuits of open justice.
It had heard that the three judges needed to “convey their profound shock, horror and unhappiness about what occurred to Sara Sharif”.
Surrey County Council was concerned with the Sharif household for a number of years earlier than Sara’s loss of life.
Issues about Sara’s care have been raised inside per week of her delivery in 2013, whereas her mother and father have been identified to social providers as early as 2010.
Surrey County Council repeatedly raised “vital considerations” that the kid was more likely to undergo bodily and emotional abuse by the hands of her mother and father.
Whereas there have been the three units of household court docket proceedings talked about above, allegations that Urfan Sharif was bodily abusing Sara and her siblings have been by no means examined in court docket.
The judges who oversaw household court docket proceedings involving Sara Sharif within the years earlier than her loss of life have been named following a Courtroom of Enchantment ruling.
Judges Alison Raeside, Peter Nathan and Sally Williams have been all concerned in proceedings associated to the 10-year-old between 2013 and 2019.
Sara was positioned within the dwelling of her father, Urfan Sharif, and her stepmother, Beinash Batool, following the final of three units of proceedings.
Decide Raeside, who stays an energetic choose, handled nearly all of the hearings associated to Sara.
Judges Nathan and Williams – who’ve each since retired – have been concerned to a lesser diploma.
A number of media organisations appealed towards a restriction on naming judges.
Sara, 10, was murdered by Sharif and Batool in Woking, Surrey, in 2023. They have been jailed for all times final 12 months.
The primary set of proceedings heard Surrey County Council had a “variety of considerations in relation to the care that (Olga Sharif) and Mr Sharif present Z and U (Sara’s siblings) and are probably to offer to Sara”.
Decide Raeside authorised the kids being positioned below supervision orders, which means they stayed of their mother and father’ care.
That call was supported by the council, the kids’s guardian and Sara’s mother and father.
In November 2014, after baby Z was discovered with an arm harm in line with an grownup chew mark, Sara and her two siblings have been taken into police safety.
Olga Sharif, Sara’s mom, later accepted a warning after being charged with assault occasioning precise bodily hurt.
The next day, Decide Raeside prolonged the identical order for per week, with Decide Williams making an interim care order for Sara and one in every of her siblings as proceedings continued in 2015.
That was Decide Williams’s solely involvement within the case.
On the finish of the identical set of proceedings, a listening to earlier than Decide Raeside was advised the native authority was “extraordinarily involved” that Sara and baby U have been “more likely to undergo vital emotional and bodily hurt of their mother and father’ care”, as each alleged the opposite was violent.
Regardless of these allegations, nonetheless, the council nonetheless concluded “the danger will be managed” if Sara was returned to her mom’s care, with supervised contact along with her father.
That call was supported by the kids’s guardian, whereas Decide Raeside authorised the plan in Might 2015.
Sara was moved to the property the place she was later murdered in 2019.
She had made accusations of bodily abuse by her mom, which have been by no means confirmed.
In a report for a ultimate listening to in October 2019, a social employee advised the court docket they assessed that “Urfan and Beinash are capable of meet Sara and (U’s) wants for security, stability, emotional heat and steerage”, including that Urfan Sharif “seems to have the kids’s welfare at coronary heart”.
The transfer was additionally supported by the kids’s guardian and Sara’s mother and father and was authorised by Decide Raeside.
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The press was beforehand barred from reporting the names of the judges and different professionals concerned within the case.
The Excessive Courtroom dominated they’d “acted throughout the parameters that legislation and social work follow set for them”.
Nonetheless, the Courtroom of Enchantment dominated final week that the media might identify the judges within the pursuits of open justice.
It had heard that the three judges needed to “convey their profound shock, horror and unhappiness about what occurred to Sara Sharif”.
Surrey County Council was concerned with the Sharif household for a number of years earlier than Sara’s loss of life.
Issues about Sara’s care have been raised inside per week of her delivery in 2013, whereas her mother and father have been identified to social providers as early as 2010.
Surrey County Council repeatedly raised “vital considerations” that the kid was more likely to undergo bodily and emotional abuse by the hands of her mother and father.
Whereas there have been the three units of household court docket proceedings talked about above, allegations that Urfan Sharif was bodily abusing Sara and her siblings have been by no means examined in court docket.