Not unduly lenient

Judges refuse to increase killer’s minimum from 40 years to whole life

One of the government’s law officers has failed to persuade the Court of Appeal that Sara Sharif’s father should spend the rest of his life in prison for murdering the 10-year-old.

Urfan Sharif, 43, will not be considered for parole until he has spent 40 years behind bars. But Mr Justice Cavanagh, who sentenced him last December, told Sharif — without fu…