Irish Examiner view: Insidious creep of anonymous justice

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Ten-year-old Sara Sharif singing and playing a guitar. Within months, she was dead. Sara's father Urfan Sharif, 42, and stepmother Beinash Batool, 30, were found guilty at the Old Bailey of her murder. Her uncle Faisal Malik, 29, was found guilty of causing or allowing her death.

A regular contributor to the Irish Examiner’s letters column on Friday drew a comparison between the harrowing case of Sara Sharif, the young child in England tortured to death, and Kyran Durnin, from Co Louth.

Kyran, who would now be eight, was reported missing from his home in Drogheda in August although he had allegedly not been seen for two years.