Sara Sharif’s murder shows that we have not learned anything after my sister Victoria Clubie was brutally murdered 25 years ago

Victoria Clubie’s older brother has criticized social services to protect Sara Sharif from her father and Madrastra Killer.

Speaking on the anniversary of the death of his sister, Jacques Climbie warned that nothing has changed in the 25 years since the London schoolboy was killed in one of the worst cases of Child abuse In British history.

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He added: “It is sad that the lessons have not learned from my sister’s death.”

The tragic victory, eight years old, died after months of horrible abuse at the hands of his aunt French grandmother Marie-Thherese Kouao And her boyfriend Carl Manning.

Dr. Nathaniel Carey, who performed the autopsy, pointed out 128 separate injuries and scars, telling a public investigation that the case was “the worst thing I have treated.”

It was known by four local authorities, two child protection. police The teams, two hospitals and a NSPCC center, but the judge described the people who supervised their case as “blindingly incompetent.”

Public research found that Brent Social Services was “severely defective.”

He also discovered that Haringe and Social Services was “practically paralyzed” for mismanagement.

Victoria’s parents traveled to London later and spent years campaigning for reform.

In disturbingly similar circumstances, Urfan Sharif and his wife Beinash Batoool Ten years killed Sara In 2023 at the family home in Woking, Surreywith the authorities that fail to intervene repeatedly.

After a legal battle, the three judges who supervised the Family Court Hearings involving Sara In the years before the murdered, she was appointed as Raeside Alison Judge, Judge Peter Nathan and Judge Sally Williams.

In an exclusive interview, the 42 -year -old Jacques animation worker said: “I heard about the Sara Sharif case and brought a lot of pain.

“Children like Sara should be protected by social services, but there seems to be so negligence. Reading about your case caused all bad memories to come back and make you ask you why nobody intervened. It is shocking that something like this can happen in the United Kingdom. “

On Tuesday marks 25 years since Victoria died in the Intensive Care Unit at St Mary’s in London suffering from hypothermia, organic insufficiency and malnutrition.

Three -year -old Jacques will spend the day sitting in a quiet contemplation in his home in Abidjan, the largest city on the French -speaking ivory coast, Western Africa.

Burned and scalded

He still celebrates Victoria every year and fills well in his eyes while he remembers having played with her when she was a girl.

He said: “We were very close since she was my younger sister at that time and I felt very protective with her. She was a brilliant girl, always smiling and happy.

“We were two of nine children. We didn’t have much money, but there was much joy in our house. Victoria loved to sing. I had a beautiful voice and I have so many happy memories. ”

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Francis and Berthe Climbie dreamed with a better life for their children far from the poverty of the Ivory coastthat was then on the verge of civil war.

Kauao, a relative who barely knew, offered to take Victoria to Europe to receive education.

But aunt grandmother cynically used her niece to claim children’s benefits, first in France in 1998 and then in Ealing, West Londonwhere they moved in April 1999 before moving to Harlesden, north of London.

Kouao, now 68, brought Victoria along with her when he made claims of benefits, and the authorities noticed that the young man was small, fragile, neglected and with a wig due to a severe skin condition.

The abuse intensified as of July 1999, when Aunt Grandma moved to the floor of a room of her new boyfriend of Manning bus drivers, who lived in Tottenham.

Victoria was taken to the hospital twice that month, where she was treated for injuries.

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The doctors were told that he was so afraid of Kouao’s furies that would get wet.

But the police and social services still refused to get involved, even when accusations of sexual abuse against Manning were made, now 52 years.

Later, a court heard that the couple had scalded and hungry for Victoria, burned with cigarettes, tied it for more than 24 hours and hit her.

The young man was forced to sleep in a lining in the bathtub and was taken to the churches where the shepherds said he was possessed.

It was only when a Minicab driver who collected Victoria from the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God insisted on taking her to the nearby Tottenham ambulance station that Victoria finally received help, and by then it was too late.

Her parents did not discover that she had died until a month later.

‘Destroyed our family’

In 2003, Victoria’s mother, Francis, described the public investigation of £ 3.8 million, the most expensive child protection investigation in the history of the United Kingdom, as a “great victory.”

The 400 pages report of Lord Laming made 108 recommendations for the reform.

But more than two decades later, Sara Sharif case Once again it has exposed the incompetence of our child protection system.

As of 2019, when his father received custody, the schoolgirl was subjected to regular beatings.

He was tied with tape and his head covered with an “makeshift hood.” The teachers noticed that he had a hijab to cover his bruises while the neighbors informed having heard shouts from the house.

Sara’s body was discovered by the family residence police in Woking in the early hours of August 10, 2023.

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His father Urfan, 43, and stepmother Batoool, 30, I had already flown PakistanWith his brother Faisal Malik and his other five children.

The three adults were accused of murder when they returned to Gatwick airport in September 2023.

Last year, old Bailey heard that Sara had suffered more than 70 injuries, even in her ribs, shoulder blades and fingers, and a traumatic brain injury.

On December 11, 2024, Urfan and Batool were declared guilty of murdering Saraand Malik was convicted of causing or allowing the death of a child.

The father and stepmother received life, like Kouao and Manning, while Malik received a 16 -year sentence.

Jacques reveals that his father died from a stress -related disease in 2010 and his mother died shortly after in 2013. Both were 50 years old.

His brother Augustin, who later traveled to London with his sister Joelle, died in 2015 at age 22 in an accident in Mali, where he was studying. Joelle is now 26 years old and works as an intern.

Jacques says that Kouao initially wanted him to return with her, but then changed his mind, explaining to the 15 that he was too old.

He said: “When Victoria went to Europe, we were all happy. We expected that she became a doctor or lawyer. There was no contact after that until, one day, we knew I had died. It was really difficult then. Victoria’s death shattered our family. My parents never reached an agreement with their loss.

“They wanted to fight to protect other children, but every time Victoria’s birthday came, they cried a lot.”