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A former girlfriend of Sara Sharif’s father says she was left terrified when he held her captive in his dwelling, held a knife to her face and cruelly blamed her for a miscarriage.

She first encountered Urfan Sharif when she got here to the UK as a teen from Poland and entered a relationship with the kid killer, which she says quickly turned abusive as he got here jealous and controlling.

Reacting to his responsible conviction of torturing and murdering his 10-year-old daughter, the lady named Angelika informed the Every day Mail: “All I used to be pondering is that would have been me, that would have been my baby. It was an enormous shock – but additionally, I knew he was able to it.”

Such was her terror of the taxi driver, now aged 42, that she fled out of a window when trapped inside his dwelling, and returned to Poland to flee him.

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He had jealously watched her each transfer, stolen her passport and had tried to burn her initials onto his pores and skin, she says.

When she misplaced their baby, Angelika says he accused her of getting an abortion in a confrontation she described as “so painful”, which prompted her to go away the connection for good.

“That was the worst factor that ever occurred to me,” she mentioned. “However now, in some darkish approach, I really feel fortunate that this didn’t occur to my baby.”

She first met Sharif, who was 9 years her senior, whereas working at Burger King in Woking the place he was her shift supervisor. Whereas their relationship labored effectively in the beginning, she mentioned his jealousy would lead him to return to the flat in a rage, throwing her on the sofa and accusing her of dishonest.

Within the winter of 2007, his behaviour worsened with Angelika saying that he stood over her with a folding chair earlier than selecting up a knife.

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“He held the knife proper as much as my neck and informed me: ‘You’re mine and solely mine.’ He mentioned that I’m not going anyplace with out him, and that if I ever speak to anybody once more will probably be the top of me,” she mentioned.

After escaping, she reported him to the police who arrested him and held him in a jail cell for 48 hours. “Urfan has two faces. One is variety, good, very beautiful and all the time apologises. However the second face, the one individuals don’t see, it’s the satan,” she mentioned.

She finally retracted her assertion and returned to Poland, the place he continued to pester her and beg for her forgiveness, till she agreed to reconcile in March 2008. She quickly grew to become pregnant, information which delighted Sharif, however this could take a bitter flip after she misplaced the infant.

It was throughout a visit to Poland to obsessively stalk Angelika when he allegedly met Olga Domin, Sara’s mom, and invited her to return to the UK with him to pursue a relationship.

“Listening to the small print which can be launched now, that he was abusing for such a very long time. His personal baby. Oh my God, my coronary heart may be very damaged. It’s damaged into 1,000,000 items,” she mentioned.

She added that she had adopted the trial day-after-day, and hoped that Sharif would obtain the “harshest punishment doable” for his crimes.

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“As a result of day-after-day I used to be pondering that would have been me. I’ve this all the time on my thoughts now – all the time.

“If I had stayed in a relationship with him it might have gotten worse and worse and worse. That would have been my life.”

Sharif was discovered responsible of murdering Sara alongside his spouse Beinash Batool, after the schoolgirl was discovered lifeless at their household dwelling in Surrey with over 70 accidents. She had additionally endured 25 fractures, a traumatic mind harm, scalding to her ankles and a burn to her buttocks from a home iron.

An investigation revealed she had been subjected to a “marketing campaign of abuse” within the last years of her life, which had seen her tormented with a cricket bat and metallic pole, and stored from college to cover her accidents.

Following a trial on the Outdated Bailey, each had been convicted and face life behind bars, whereas Sharif’s brother Faisal Malik was discovered responsible of inflicting or permitting her loss of life.