Sara Sharif killer Beinash Batool moans about working in prison chapel for £8 a week
A killer stepmum who was sentenced to a minimum of 33 years behind bar for torturing a 10-year-old to death is now behind bars and moaning about having to work.
Beinash Batool is serving life at HMP Bronzefield alongside some of the country's most dangerous women and has become pals with fellow child killer Lucy Letby. She was convicted alongside her sadist husband after stepdaughter Sara Sharif was found dead on a bunk bed at their home in Woking, Surrey.
Police were only alerted after the tot's family fled to Pakistan after her death, as her dad Urfan Sharif eventually rang cops in the UK to confess he had beaten her "too much". Sara had suffered more than 25 broken bones, iron burns to her bottom, scalding marks to her feet, and human bites during a campaign of abuse.
A court heard Sara was tied up with packaging tape and her head covered with a makeshift hood during regular bouts of punishment that would have left her in excruciating pain. Even as she lay dying in 30-year-old Batool's lap, taxi driver Sharif came home and hit her in the stomach for "pretending".
During Batool's sentencing the judge, Mr Justice Cavanagh, said: 'This treatment of a 10-year-old child is nothing short of gruesome.' The judge added that no medical help was sought for Sara and 'it's hard to imagine' the terror the girl must have felt.
Now Batool, who is locked up on Houseblock Four in HMP Bronzefield, has teamed up with Lucy Letby and has already earned "enhanced prisoner" status. She manipulates the guards to earn "positive comment" points and takes trips out to the prison salon to get her hair and nails done at least once a month, according to other prisoners.
According to one of our prison insiders, Batool has been overheard moaning that she has to work, despite bagging one of the cushiest jobs on the wing, working in the prison chapel.
For £8 a week she photocopies prison Muslim and Christian newsletters and puts them in envelopes to be handed out to the 550 fellow lags at the women's jail.
Our source told the Mirror: "Beinash has got a new job working in the chapel, can you believe it? But she's moaning, she's not happy because she's not used to working. She says she's always had everything provided for her.
"She's doing f**king photocopies, she collates papers for the Muslim prisoners and the Christian prisoners, and puts them in envelopes, that's all she does. And now she's whinging because 'Oh I've never worked in my life, I've always had a man support me' and 'I just hate this job'.
"And it's like, you're f**king lucky, you're allowed to get out of your cell. You're escorted over there, you're escorted back, using up officer resources and then you're moaning about it.
"Then if she's left on the landing she's like 'Oh I'm never allowed off here', I mean she's just really p*****g us off."
The source added: "A prisoner said to me yesterday, that she passed Beinash in the chapel and she wanted to slap her, just looking at her is p*****g people off. I can't believe she's got a job in the chapel."
The Mirror previously reported that Batool and Letby became best pals in prison and are often seen laughing and playing cards together.
Our source said: "Letby's just odd, she has a weird look, when she think someone is looking at her, she's staring at people, then she's best friends with that Beinash which isn't helping her at all, because everyone knows she's guilty, guilty, guilty."
Now the pair gorge on junk food from their prison wages and are seen eating piles of crisps and chocolate, with Letby enjoying boxes of Quality Street.
In March, Batool and husband Sharif, lost their Court of Appeal bids to reduce the minimum terms of their life sentences. Caroline Carberry KC, defending Batool, said her sentence was too long and did not properly reflect her secondary role.
However, the Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr, sitting with Mr Justice Soole and Mr Justice Goose, declined to alter the sentences.
Baroness Carr described Sara as 'a little girl full of personality, a beautiful, brave, feisty and spirited child', adding that Sharif had 'clearly derived grim satisfaction from his campaign of violence'.
Dismissing Sharif's appeal, Baroness Carr said: 'We can see no arguable basis to challenge the conclusion of the trial judge.'
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