- Sara Sharif’s father and stepmother were found guilty of murder this week
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The evil killer stepmother of Sara Sharif has reportedly struck up a prison friendship with serial baby murderer Lucy Letby as the pair ‘get on so well’ in their comfy jail ward.
Both are currently being held at HMP Bronzefield in Surrey and can be seen ‘playing cards’ on most days and ‘chatting’, a source has claimed.
Britain’s youngest female murderer Sharon Carr – found guilty aged 12 of knifing an 18-year-old to death in 1992 – has also apparently become pals with Batool.
And completing the friendship group is convicted murderer Michelle Smith who poisoned her six-month-old daughter Amy with adult painkillers in Swansea in 2007.
The source at the Category A jail near Ashford told the Mirror: ‘Beinash and Lucy live on the same wing with all the other lifers. They hang out on the landing together most days, playing cards and chatting.
‘The child killers always stick together because they want to protect themselves, so it doesn’t surprise me in the least that they get along so well.
‘Beinash is also friends with Michelle and Sharon. They all live in house block four which is a really nice wing.
‘They have privileges like their own room with an en suite shower, bigger beds and access to a private courtyard. It’s like you’re wrapped in cotton wool so there’s no risk of being attacked or anything like that.’
Sara’s stepmother Beinash Batool, 30, wept as she was found guilty of murdering the girl
Lucy Letby (pictured) is serving 15 whole-life orders after she was convicted of murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven others, with two attempts on one of her victims
Sara Sharif had suffered more than 25 broken bones from being hit repeatedly
The reports come as Batool was placed on remand at the same secure wing as Letby where both are held for their own protection following the former’s guilty verdict on Wednesday this week.
Letby, a former neonatal nurse, was convicted in 2023 of murdering seven infants and attempting the murder of seven others between June 2015 and June 2016.
Time and again consultant pediatricians Dr Dewi Evans and Dr Sandie Bohin suggested babies under Letby’s care had been injected with air – either into their blood or down feeding tubes into their stomachs.
Meanwhile Batool’s 42-year-old taxi driver husband beat his 10-year-old daughter to death with her acting as a willing accomplice, thinking he would get away with it after police repeatedly failed to bring charges when assaults were reported by three women and two children.
Batool, aged 30, wept in the dock as she was convicted but Sharif showed no emotion.
His brother Faisal Malik, 29, was also convicted of causing or allowing little Sara’s death.
This comes as over the years the 10-year-old suffered an unimaginable ordeal at the hands of her father and stepmother, who bound her arms and legs and hooded her in a plastic bag secured with parcel tape around her head while they battered her with a cricket bat, metal pole and a rolling pin, strangled her until her neck broke, burnt her with an iron and bit her.
When police found her broken little body dumped under the pink covers of her bunk bed by her fleeing family there were so many injuries- at least 71 externally and 29 fractures – that it was impossible to say which wound caused her death.
Sara Sharif’s mother Olga Domin (right) has paid a heartbreaking tribute to her ‘princess’
Sara suffered broken bones from being hit with a cricket bat, pictured above in evidence
Sara Sharif’s evil father faces life in prison today for the murder of the schoolgirl (pictured)
Sara Sharif died aged ten at the family home in Woking, Surrey, on August 8 last year
Both Batool and Letby are currently being held at HMP Bronzefield in Surrey and can be seen ‘playing cards’ on most days and ‘chatting’, a source has claimed
Sara Sharif’s mother said this week she was in a state of disbelief hearing about the abuse Urban Sharif inflicted on his daughter, saying it is not ‘human’.
Polish Olga Domin Ms Domin, 38, lost a court battle to keep her daughter Sara away from Sharif, Batool and Malik.
She told The Sun: ‘It’s not human to do this stuff to your own child.
‘Monster is too nice word for him anyway. They should all get the same for what they were doing.’
The child has been laid to rest in a grave bearing her mother’s surname with flowers, and Olga said she visits every day.
Sharif had met Sara’s mother online in 2009 and they got married less than a year later, but separated after the mother accused him of abuse.
The shocking case has raised questions about failures by police, social services and Sara’s school who missed 15 opportunities to save the vulnerable pupil before Sharif savagely battered her to death with a metal pole as she lay barely conscious dying in Batool’s arms on August 8 last year.
Urfan Sharif, Beinash Batool and Faisal Malik will be sentenced at The Central Criminal Court in London on Tuesday, 17 December.
Prison contractor Sodexo and the Ministry of Justice have been contacted for comment.