Urfan Sharif, 43, who murdered his 10-year-old British-Pakistani daughter, Sara Sharif, in a high-profile case that caused public revulsion has been attacked in prison,

UK officials and media said on Friday.

Sharif suffered cuts to his neck and face and received medical treatment inside the jail after he

was assaulted with the sharp lid of a tuna tin, the paper added.

A spokesperson for the prison service said police were “investigating an assault on a prisoner at HMP Belmarsh on January 1”.

A spokesman for London’s Metropolitan Police said that “a 43-year-old suffered non-life-threatening injuries”.