- Thursday, April 25, 2024
By: Sarwar Alam
A 34-year-old Pakistani cricketer in the UK who brutally beat his wife with a bat and made her drink bleach has been spared jail time as the judge noted that the victim was not “vulnerable”, triggering widespread protests in the country. Mustafa Bashir’s legal team had claimed that prison would ruin his career as a cricketer, leading to a suspended sentence by a Manchester judge. The court heard that Bashir berated her for wearing western clothing Manchester-based Bashir had admitted two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm after the court was told he beat his wife Fakhara Karim with…
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