Mother of Sara Sharif ‘was advised to read the Quran’ when her husband was beating the schoolgirl

The stepmother of murdered schoolgirl Sara Sharif told her sister the schoolgirl was being beaten up because ‘she’s naughty,’ a court heard. Urfan Sharif, 42, the father of the ten year old, his wife Beinash Batool, 30, and brother, McDonald’s worker Faisal Malik, 29, all deny murder and causing or allowing the death of a child. Sara had at least 71 external injuries inflicted on her and was bitten and tortured with a hot iron in the days before she…