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The Solicitor General has decided to entreaty against the condemnation passed connected Sara Sharif's begetter arsenic "unduly lenient."
Urfan Sharif, 43, was sentenced to beingness successful situation pursuing a proceedings astatine the Old Bailey past year - with a minimum of 40 years down bars earlier helium tin beryllium considered for parole.
But the solicitor general, Lucy Rigby, has referred Sharif's condemnation to the Court of Appeal.
A spokesperson for the Attorney General's bureau said: "It is present for the tribunal to determine whether to summation the sentence."
Sara was hooded, burned and beaten during much than 2 years of maltreatment earlier her assemblage was recovered astatine the household location successful Woking, Surrey, successful 2023.
Her stepmother, Beinash Batool, was sentenced to beingness successful situation with a minimum word of 33 years earlier she tin beryllium considered for parole.
The BBC understands that Batool's condemnation volition not beryllium sent to the Court of Appeal.
On Friday, it emerged that Sharif and Batool are seeking support to entreaty against their minimum sentences.
Sara's uncle, Faisal Malik, 29, was sentenced to 16 years imprisonment for causing oregon allowing her death.
He has is besides seeking support to entreaty against his sentence.
No tribunal day has yet been acceptable for the appeals.
The proceedings heard however a post-mortem introspection recovered Sara had suffered injuries including six probable quality wound marks, an robust pain and scalding from blistery h2o earlier she died connected 8 August past year.
Next to Sara's body, which was recovered by constabulary successful a bunkbed, was a enactment successful her father's handwriting which read: "Whoever spot this note, it's maine Urfan Sharif who killed my girl by beating."
Sharif initially claimed that Batool was liable for Sara's death, and told the assemblage helium had made a mendacious confession successful the enactment and a consequent telephone telephone successful bid to support his wife.
However, successful a melodramatic U-turn nether cross-examination, Sharif aboriginal accepted "full responsibility" for his daughter's death.
Sara had much than 70 caller outer injuries erstwhile her assemblage was recovered by police, including 11 fractures to her spine and signs of a traumatic encephalon injury.
Sharif, Batool and Malik fled to Islamabad, Pakistan, with Sara's 5 siblings connected 9 August 2023, the time earlier her assemblage was found.
From Pakistan, Sharif called constabulary successful England and told the relation that helium "legally punished" Sara and she died.
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