Sara Sharif’s abusive uncle ‘is moved to comfortable jail’ that gives tailoring workshops and has ping pong and pool tables
Sara Sharif‘s abusive uncle has reportedly been moved to a cushy jail where inmates are offered ‘tailoring workshops’ and can whittle the days away playing ping pong or pool.
Faisal Malik has reportedly been transferred to HMP Lincoln after being caged for 16 years for his part in his 10-year-old niece’s murder.
Sara died in August 2023 after being subjected to ‘unimaginable pain, misery and anxiety,’ at the hands of her evil father and stepmother, Urfan Sharif and Beinash Batool.
Both Sharif and Batool were caged for life, with minimum terms of 40 years and 33 years respectively after being found guilty of the youngster’s murder.
Cruel Malik, who was found guilty of causing or allowing her death found guilty of causing or allowing her death, and was caged in the brutal Belmarsh jail with his older brother, Sharif – who had his neck slashed open with a tuna can lid in January.
Malik has now been locked up in Lincoln, reports the Sun. The jail offers tailoring workshops and vocational courses in painting, decorating and bricklaying.
Home to around 650 criminals, the prison has its own laundry and recycling centre where male-only inmates can earn recognised qualifications.
And in the jail’s four residential wings, prisoners can indulge in playing games, chowing down at the lock-up’s own bistro, or relaxing in the facility’s ‘Listener’s Suite’, where inmates can read books or receive counselling.
Sara Sharif, 10, died in August 2023 after being subjected to ‘unimaginable pain, misery and anxiety’, a court previously heard
Sara’s uncle Faisal Malik has been moved from the maximum security Belmarsh jail to Lincoln
Pictured is the outside of HMP Lincoln, where prisoners can take part in tailoring workshops and vocational courses in painting, decorating and bricklaying
Pictured is the inside of HMP Lincoln, where Malik is now caged
The jail’s website reads: ‘Lincoln Prison is committed to providing a safe and educational environment where men can learn new skills to help them on release, including workshops, education and vocational courses.’
All wings have telephones, showers and toasters and an X-ray scanner is used on every inmate coming into the lock-up to spot any contraband before they enter.
Paul Yates, the prison’s former governor, said the jail was about making lags feel safe so they can rehabilitate themselves.
‘Most prisoners appreciate this equipment because in my 27 year career most want to come in, do their time and then get out,’ he told Lincolnshire Live.
‘They then want to spend time with their families and move on with their lives.
‘It is only a small minority of them that want to bring drugs in.’
Malik appeared via video link from HMP Lincoln last week, reported the Sun, for a failed sentencing appeal.
The hearing saw pleas to reduce the jail sentences of Malik, Sharif and Batool.
Pictured is the ‘Listener’s Suite’ at HMP Lincoln
Sara’s father Urfan Sharif was emotionless as he was found guilty of murdering his daughter.
Sara’s stepmother Beinash Batool, 30, wept as she was found guilty of murdering the girl. Her uncle Faisal Malik, 29, was found guilty of causing or allowing the death of a child
However, all three appeals were rejected by a panel of judges.
A plea by the Solicitor General to have Sharif’s father’s term behind bars upped to a whole-lift order was also declined by Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr, who said such a punishment was a ‘last resort’.
Dismissing Sharif’s appeal, Baroness Carr said: ‘We can see no arguable basis to challenge the conclusion of the trial judge.
‘We are not persuaded that anything less than a whole life order was unduly lenient.’
Sitting with Mr Justice Soole and Mr Justice Goose, Baroness Carr added: ‘The court should give very great weight to the assessment of the trial judge… He was in the very best position to make the assessment that he did.’
Earlier in the hearing, Tom Little KC, for the Solicitor General, said Sara’s murder was a rare case of such ‘exceptionally high seriousness’ that it warranted a whole life order for Sharif.
‘This was a truly awful case of a murder of a child,’ he told the court, adding that a whole life order was ‘the only appropriate sentence’.
He said in written submissions: ‘It is submitted that it is difficult to conceive of a murder being perpetrated on a young girl by her own father that could be any more serious than this.’
Ten-year-old Sara Sharif died in August 2023 after being subjected to ‘unimaginable pain, misery and anxiety,’ a trial at the Old Bailey heard
Court artist sketch by Elizabeth Cook of (left to right) Sara Sharif’s stepmother Beinash Batool, uncle Faisal Malik and father Urfan Sharif appearing in court for the girl’s murder
During a regime of terror, Sara was punched, strangled, battered with a cricket bat and metal pole, and burned with an iron
The 10-year-old was found dead in a bunkbed at the family home in Woking, Surrey, in August 2023.
She had suffered 71 recent injuries at the time of her death, including 25 broken bones, iron burns on her bottom, scalding marks to her feet, and human bites, appeal judges were told.
Her father Sharif was viciously assaulted in jail on New Year’s Day by two inmates, who slashed his throat with a tuna can lid.
A source told the Sun: ‘Urfan was sliced up badly in his cell by two others who rushed in… He was lucky to survive.’
Sharif, 43, was moved to HMP Frankland shortly after.
MailOnline has approached the Ministry of Justice for comment.
