Sara wrote a card saying ‘I love you, dad’ – judgepublished at 12:37 Greenwich Mean Time
Sara was “a very courageous little girl with an unquenchable spirit”, Justice Cavanagh says, and she loved to sing and dance.
He says a video filmed not long before she died of her dancing in front of the TV shows her mobility was impaired, but despite everything, she still smiled at the camera.
Among the most heartbreaking evidence, the judge says, was a short story she wrote that described Batool as a “queen”, a birthday card to Sharif that said “I love you, dad”, and an apology note that asked for forgiveness for answering back.
Her abuse had become normalised for her, the judge says.
“She had known nothing else for her entire life,” the judge says, adding that Sharif and Batool had persuaded Sara that she deserved the treatment.
