
Louise Tickle
Journalist at Freelance
Reporter at The Observer
Reporter, The Observer. Loves puffins. Author of family court thriller 'Between The Lies'. The sequel 'Tainted Love' coming soon (still writing)
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1 month ago |
observer.co.uk | Louise Tickle
Less than four months ago the court of appeal overturned a high court ban on naming a family judge who placed a little girl with the father who murdered her. Now the high court has issued another ban on the media naming a family judge found to have seriously abused their adopted children. This is yet another embarrassing misstep for the family justice system, and it poses some urgent questions. Are family court judges culturally inclined to protect their own at any cost?
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1 month ago |
observer.co.uk | Louise Tickle
Less than four months ago the court of appeal overturned a high court ban on naming a family judge who placed a little girl with the father who murdered her. Now the high court has issued another ban on the media naming a family judge found to have seriously abused their adopted children. This is yet another embarrassing misstep for the family justice system, and it poses some urgent questions. Are family court judges culturally inclined to protect their own at any cost?
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1 month ago |
observer.co.uk | Louise Tickle |Ada Barume
Sara Sharif: one judge, three court cases and a murder The brutal circumstances of Sara Sharif’s death were described by the judge that sent her killers to prison as torture. But when it emerged that the two adults who murdered her were granted parental responsibility by a family court judge four years earlier, the finger of blame began to wander. Who could have saved Sarah Sharif?
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1 month ago |
observer.co.uk | Louise Tickle
On 10 August 2023, the body of 10-year-old Sara Sharif was discovered by police under a duvet in the family home in Woking. Her father and stepmother were nowhere to be found: it later emerged they had fled to Pakistan taking the family’s five children. Sixteen months later, Urfan Sharif, 43, and Beinash Batool, 30, were found guilty of Sara’s murder. The litany of injuries on her body indicating torture meted out over several years shocked even veteran reporters at the Old Bailey.
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1 month ago |
observer.co.uk | Louise Tickle |Hannah Summers
On 10 August 2023, the body of 10-year-old Sara Sharif was discovered by police under a duvet in the family home in Woking. Her father and stepmother were nowhere to be found: it later emerged they had fled to Pakistan taking the family’s five children. Sixteen months later, Urfan Sharif, 43, and Beinash Batool, 30, were found guilty of Sara’s murder. The litany of injuries on her body indicating torture meted out over several years shocked even veteran reporters at the Old Bailey.
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