Murderer: Steve Sansom
Steve Sansom, the New Addington murderer who was released on parole and killed again in the gruesome attack on Sarah Mayhew, has been named as the Belmarsh Prison inmate who savagely assaulted Urfan Sharif, recently convicted of the murder of his daughter, Sara Sharif.
A national newspaper has identified Sansom as the prisoner who slashed Sharif’s neck with the jagged lid of a fish can.
Sansom is reported to have forced Sharif, 43, into a cell in a frenzied attack with the help of another inmate.
“Everyone is talking about how it was Sansom who got to Sharif,” the newspaper reported a source as saying.
Sansom is awaiting sentencing after admitting the murder last March of Sarah Mayhew and cutting up her body with power tools.
Sansom, 46, also killed a New Addington taxi driver when he was 19.
Sharif, 43, was sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted at the Old Bailey last month of killing 10-year-old Sara Sharif at the family home in Woking.
He was attacked in Belmarsh Prison on New Year’s Day, when returning from a shower, his neck and face badly gashed. The police are investigating the incident, though no one has been arrested.
“He was sliced in the neck and face, and is still in healthcare and in a very bad way,” a prison source told The Sun.
Child killer: Urfan Sharif
“He was lucky to survive, has had to have stitches and will have scars as a permanent reminder of the attack. The guards tried to keep him safe because he obviously had a target on his back after the case was such big news.”
Sansom has been named as the prisoner who carried out the attack. “The other bloke, who is also a murderer, held the door shut,” the source told the newspaper.
“Sansom is a nasty piece of work and will be proud of what he’s done.”
Sarah Mayhew was 38 and lived in New Addington.
Her savage murder shocked the nation and was the cause of fear and anguish in New Addington, after human body parts were discovered in Rowdown Fields in April. Further searches a month later found more human remains in the River Wandle at Mitcham.
Sansom and Gemma Watts, from Forestdale, have both pleaded guilty to the murder.
Read more: Parole review ordered into release of murderer Steve Sansom
Read more: Killer of Sarah Mayhew has previous conviction for murder
Read more: Murder victim’s body parts discovered in River Wandle
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Sansom should never be freed from prison
That’s not really in doubt.
What needs to be addressed is why he was ever released in the first place.
He was released for his first murder in 2019, under one of several Conservative governments that allowed crime to soar and who, now in Opposition, are crowing about criminals going unpunished