Those responsible for Sara Sharif’s death are “executioners” and “sadists”, the 10-year-old’s mother has said.
Sara Sharif’s father, Urfan Sharif, 42, and stepmother Beinash Batool, 30, were convicted of the girl’s murder last week by a jury at the Old Bailey.
Her uncle, Faisal Malik, 29, was convicted of causing or allowing her death.
Ahead of their sentencing on Tuesday, a victim impact statement from Sara’s mother, Olga Sharif, who was watching the hearing via an online link, was read to the court.
Mrs Sharif paid tribute to her daughter’s “unique character” and said she was an “angel” who “left us too soon”.
In the statement, read by prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones KC, she said: “Sara was always smiling. She had her own unique character.
“The only thing I had left to give to my daughter was to give her a beautiful Catholic funeral that she deserves.
“She is now an angel who looks down on us from heaven, she is no longer experiencing violence.
“To this day, I can’t understand how someone can be such a sadist to a child.
“I hoped that when she grew up we would meet, but now that won’t happen, she left us too soon.”
Addressing the defendants in the dock, she said: “You are sadists, although even this word is not enough for you. I would say you are executioners.”
Mr Emlyn Jones said Mrs Sharif had expressed a view about the sentence the defendants should receive, and referred to them as “these cowards”.
Sara’s mother said she was “under constant psychological supervision” and “taking strong sedatives” as a result of her daughter’s death.