The three judges involved in proceedings relating to Sara Sharif in the years before her death can be named following a Court of Appeal ruling.

Judge Alison Raeside, Judge Peter Nathan and Judge Sally Williams were all involved in family court proceedings related to the 10-year-old between 2013 and 2019.

The last of three sets of proceedings saw Sara placed in the home of her father, Urfan Sharif, and her stepmother, Beinash Batool, who murdered her at the same address in Woking, Surrey, in 2023 and were jailed for life last year.

The press was previously barred from reporting the names of the judges and other professionals involved in the case, with the High Court ruling they "acted within the parameters that law and social work practice set for them."

Sara Sharif was murdered in August 2023PA/Surrey Police

Jurors at the Old Bailey were told how Sara Sharif had suffered dozens of injuriesSURREY POLICE

However, following an application from journalists, the order was lifted, with the names now free to be published.

It can now be reported that Surrey County Council was involved with the Sharif family for several years before Sara’s death, including beginning care proceedings for her just a week after her birth.

The documents showed that the authority first had contact with Urfan Sharif and Sara’s mother Olga Sharif in 2010, more than two years before Sara was born, and had received “referrals indicative of neglect” relating to Sara’s two older siblings, known only as Z and U.

Judge Raeside, who remains an active judge, dealt with the majority of the proceedings related to Sara, with Judges Nathan and Williams, who have both since retired, involved to a lesser degree.

The arrest of Sara Sharif's father Urfan Sharif at Gatwick AirportPA

The first set of proceedings was told that the council had "a number of concerns in relation to the care that (Olga Sharif) and Sharif provide Z and U and are likely to provide to Sara."

Judge Raeside approved the children being placed under supervision orders, meaning the children stayed in their parents’ care – a position supported by Surrey County Council, the children’s guardian and Sara’s parents.

In November 2014, after Z was found with an arm injury consistent with an adult bite mark, Sara and her two siblings were taken into police protection. Olga Sharif later accepted a caution after being charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

Judge Raeside then extended the same order for a week the following day, with Judge Williams making an interim care order for Sara and one of her siblings as proceedings continued in 2015, her only involvement in the case.