SARA Sharif’s killer dad is being protected by a Islamist gang in a jail dubbed Monster Mansion, insiders claim.
Vile Urfan Sharif – who is also Muslim – has been shielded by extremists who are protecting him due to their shared religion, it is alleged.
We told last month how Sharif, 43 – who is serving life for torturing and killing his 10-year-old daughter – had been “cowering” in his cell after being slashed by a con using a jagged tuna tin lid at his previous jail, Belmarsh in south London.
But a tough gang of Muslim lags – including terrorist inmates – at Category A Frankland, County Durham, have “put the word around” that no-one should attack Sharif or they will take revenge, according to insiders.
A source said: “Sharif has not been touched at Frankland – and it is largely down to this Muslim gang.
“They are on the same wing as him and they have put the word around that he is not to be touched.
“They’ve said that anyone who tries anything will have them to deal with.
“It is warped but they have said that what went on in Sharif’s house was a ‘family matter’ and they think it should not have ended up in the courts.
“They are aware he is a Muslim, so as far as they are concerned is one of them and deserves protection.
“They are a fairly small gang, with only about eight of them, but they are pretty fearsome and known to stick together.
“Some of them are lifers do they don’t have a lot to lose – and no-one really wants to cross them.
“The guards are keeping a really close eye on him after what happened at Belmarsh.”
Sharif has spent most of his time locked in his cell at Frankland, and is usually escorted by prison officers when he takes exercise or goes for food.
He has grown his hair and lost weight so that he is “painfully thin”, our source said.
Frankland is dubbed Monster Mansion as it houses killers including Levi Bellfield, Ian Huntley, ex-cop Wayne Couzens and Mark Dixie, who murdered Sally Anne Bowman.
Other inmates include Lee Rigby killer Michael Adebolajo, terrorist Dhiren Barot and Sean Mercer, who shot 11-year-old Rhys Jones.
Sharif was moved there after he had his throat and face slashed with the jagged tuna tin lid on New Year’s Day at high-security Belmarsh.
He was left bloodied and battered and was treated in the healthcare unit at Belmarsh.
Former prison governor Ian Acheson – who led a government review on extremism in jails – has described Frankland as having “ideological and criminal gangs” competing to control wings there.
Sharif was caged last December alongside Sara’s stepmum Beinash Batool, 30, and uncle Faisal Malik, 29, after an Old Bailey trial that horrified Britain.
The trial heard Sara suffered multiple internal and external injuries and was made to wear a hijab to cover them up.
In a two-year campaign of abuse, Sharif throttled schoolgirl Sara, and hit her with a cricket bat and metal pole – sometimes tying her hands and legs together with parcel tape.
She was also bitten and burned with an iron.
Police found her body in her bunk bed at the family home in Woking, Surrey in August 2023.
Sharif left a note confessing to the killing next to her – but then fled to Pakistan with Batool and Malik. They were later brought back to the UK after an Interpol operation.
Sharif – who initially blamed Sara’s injuries on Batool at trial – was found guilty of murder and handed a minimum 40-year term.
He was held at Belmarsh, alongside Malik – but was moved after being slashed.
Frankland Prison – formerly home to Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe – holds more than 800 dangerous lags, including many who will never be released.
A Prison Service spokesperson declined to comment.
