Judge Alison Raeside oversaw care proceedings for Sara Sharif from Sara’s birth, making her the subject of a child protection plan when she was only six days old.
Throughout Sara’s short life, Raeside, a senior family court judge, played a fundamental role, handling the majority of her care hearings, including the decision to give custody to her father — the man who would murder her.
Raeside could not be identified after an unprecedented restriction was imposed by a High Court judge when Sara’s father and stepmother were convicted of her murder last month. Now after an appeal by the press, including The Times, she has been named.
Sharif had been on the radar of the police since 2007 and had racked up a string
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