Inmate who attacked Sara Sharif’s evil dad was double murderer from south London

A convicted murderer who chopped up a woman’s body and left her remains in a park has been named as the man who attacked Sara Sharif’s killer father in prison.

Steven Sansom is alleged to have attacked evil Urfan Sharif at tough HMP Belmarsh on New Year’s Day with a jagged tuna can lid. Sansom is said to have cornered Sharif in his cell with the help of another inmate.

Last year, the 46-year-old was convicted of the murder of Sarah Mayhew, 38. A trial heard he cut her body up with power tools before leaving her legs, arms and head in a field in Croydon, south London. He also murdered a taxi driver when he was just 19.

A source told the Sun: “Everyone is talking about how it was Sansom who got to Sharif. He and another inmate apparently pounced on him as he walked back to the wing after a shower, forced him into a cell and slashed him. The other bloke, who is also a murderer, held the door shut.”

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Last month, Urfan Sharif was jailed for a minimum of 40 years for the murder of 10-year-old Sara alongside her stepmother Beinash Batool, 30, and her uncle, Faisal Malik, 29. The tragic youngster was subjected to two years of torture before she was found dead at the family home in Woking, Surrey, in August, 2023.

Within hours of her death Urfan Sharif, Batool, and his brother Malik had fled to Pakistan, where Urfan confessed to the killing in a long-distance 999 call. After Pakistani police began making enquiries, the trio later returned to the UK voluntarily and were arrested at Gatwick airport.

British-Pakistani girl Sara Sharif at school in Surrey
(Image: Surrey Police/AFP via Getty Imag)

Sara – who was described as having had a “beautiful smile and loud laugh” – died with 25 fractures and 71 external injuries, including bite marks and iron burns.

Her father’s throat was said to have been sliced with the jagged lid of a tuna can in the New Year’s Day prison attack. He is understood to have been left with non-life-threatening injuries.

Sansom had only recently out of prison after a two-decade sentence for murdering a cab driver on Christmas Eve 1998 when he killed Ms Mayhew on March 8 last year. He and his partner Gemma Watts, 49, who was found to have helped him, admitted murder at the Old Bailey in September.

Ms Mayhew’s limbs and her head were found in a field in New Addington, Croydon in April after the initial discovery of a bone by a dog walker. The remains were confirmed to be hers by detectives using DNA testing. More body parts were then found in May in the River Wandle in Mitcham, south west London.

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