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The murderous father, Urfan Sharif, has begged prison doctors not to return him to his cell because he is afraid of being attacked again.

The 43-year-old monster who murdered his daughter Sara, 10, after subjecting her to a life of sickening abuse, was scarred for life after his throat was slit in prison with the jagged lid of a tuna can.

Two inmates ambushed Sharif in his cell at HMP Belmarsh in south London on New Year’s Day.

Police are investigating whether the attackers took advantage of staff shortages over the holidays after being warned that Sharif was a prime target among inmates angry and sickened by his crime.

Prison insiders say he was lucky to survive the New Year’s Day attack just weeks into his life sentence, but now he is pleading to be kept away from other convicts.

A source told The Sun that Sharif was left terrified after inmates realized his identity and is now desperate to be kept in the infirmary at HMP Belmarsh, where he received emergency treatment.

They said: “Sharif received treatment and was lucky to survive. He has not yet returned to the wing and may have to be placed in isolation for his own safety.

“It is said that others will attempt another attack – he has a target on his back because of who he is and what he did.

“He will always be looking over his shoulder and, if anything, he is even more of a target now.

“Other inmates won’t stop because they’ve already attacked him once.”

Sharif received a minimum 40-year sentence last month for murdering innocent Sara in a “torture campaign” in which she was beaten, burned and bitten.

He was jailed along with his fellow killer, his wife and Sara’s stepmother Beinash Batool, 30, and his brother Faisal Malik, 29, who was convicted of allowing the death of a child.

His helpless victim was beaten with a cricket bat and a metal stick, burned with an iron and strangled.

The prison source added: “Sharif was hit in a planned attack. The two people who caught him will be transferred, and that is even a possibility for Sharif.

“But if he is transferred, he will face the same problems elsewhere. He was cut on the neck and face and was in very bad condition after the attack.

“He was lucky to survive, he had to get stitches and he will have scars as a permanent reminder of the attack.”

Police are now investigating the incident at the category A prison in which a large number of murderers and terrorists, including Ali Harbi Ali, the murderer of MP David Amess, ‘Grindr killer’ Stephen Port, rapist ‘ Night Stalker’ Delroy Grant and Danyal Hussein, who murdered two sisters in a London park.

A Prison Service spokesperson said: “Police are investigating an assault on a prisoner at HMP Belmarsh on January 1.

The Metropolitan Police said it was investigating an alleged assault on January 1 in which “a 43-year-old man suffered non-life-threatening injuries.”

Many of Britain’s most notorious killers have lived in terror after convicts placed bounties on their heads. In 2010, Soham Huntley’s murderer had his throat slit in Durham’s Frankland Prison by fellow prisoner Damien Fowkes. Huntley, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of 10-year-old schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002, suffered a “massive, severe cut to the left side of his neck”, requiring 21 stitches.

Afterwards, Fowkes said: “I hope I killed him. “I’ve been planning it for weeks.”

Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe was attacked several times in prison before his death in 2020.

While at Parkhurst, he was attacked by James Costello, leaving him with facial cuts that required 30 stitches.

After being transferred to Broadmoor, Sutcliffe was attacked in his cell by Paul Wilson, who attempted to strangle him with a headphone cord.

And in March 1997, Sutcliffe lost sight in his left eye after being stabbed by fellow prisoner Ian Kay.