The man who allegedly slashed the throat of Sarah Sharif’s killer with a tuna can in a prison attack has been identified by insiders as Sarah Mayhew murderer Steven Sansom
The man who attacked Sara Sharif’s killer father in prison is a convicted murderer who chopped up a woman’s body and left her remains in a park, according to insiders.
Steven Sansom was convicted of the murder of Sarah Mayhew, 38, last year. A trial heard he cut her body up with power tools before leaving her legs, arms and head in a field in Croydon. The 46-year-old is now alleged to have attacked Urfan Sharif on New Year’s Day with a tuna can lid. Sansom, who also murdered a taxi driver when he was just 19, is reported to have cornered Sharif in his cell with the assistance of another inmate.
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.”
Last month, Urfan Sharif was jailed for a minimum of 40 years for the murder of Sara Sharif alongside stepmum Beinash Batool, 30, and her uncle, Faisal Malik, 29. The child was subjected to two years of torture. 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.
Urfan Sharif’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 Sarah 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.
Sarah’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 on the month before, and 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.
An examination of her body determined that two small vertebrae in her voicebox had been broken and that there was bruising to her skull. Her head had also been shaved. Police said the couple were known to Ms Mayhew.
