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A Pakistani cricketer who beat his wife with his own bat and forced her to drink bleach while urging her to kill herself is set to join a top British club after being spared jail.
Mustafa Bashir, 34, hit his hotel receptionist wife with his own bat during a jealous outburst, then warned her: 'If I hit you with this bat with my full power then you would be dead.'
During another furious attack, he held Fakhara Karim, 33, by the neck, poured bleach down her throat and forced her to take tablets while ordering her to kill herself.
She told the court how her confidence was crushed by her jealous lover, who berated her for wearing westernised clothes and called her friends 'English slag girls'.
But Bashir was spared jail at Manchester Crown Court, where the judge decided that he did not pass the custody threshold because his ex-wife was not a vulnerable person.
His defence solicitor claimed that he would join former county champions Leicestershire as a professional player after being offered a contract just before his arrest, on the condition that he was not jailed. However, the club deny having any links to him, saying today they were 'bemused' by the claims.
Sentencing Bashir to an 18-month jail term suspended for two years, Judge Mansell QC ordered him to attend a workshop entitled 'building better relationships' pay £1,000 costs and banned him from contacting Miss Karim indefinitely under the terms of a restraining order.
He told Bashir: 'This relationship started well but you began controlling her and how she spent her money.
'You told her how to spend her money and you tried to turn her against her family who you regularly insulted. She would buy clothes that were of a western style which you disapproved of and called her a slag and said her friends were "English slag girls".
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...t-wife-join-Leicestershire.html#ixzz4cXPZa6cq
Mustafa Bashir, 34, hit his hotel receptionist wife with his own bat during a jealous outburst, then warned her: 'If I hit you with this bat with my full power then you would be dead.'
During another furious attack, he held Fakhara Karim, 33, by the neck, poured bleach down her throat and forced her to take tablets while ordering her to kill herself.
She told the court how her confidence was crushed by her jealous lover, who berated her for wearing westernised clothes and called her friends 'English slag girls'.
But Bashir was spared jail at Manchester Crown Court, where the judge decided that he did not pass the custody threshold because his ex-wife was not a vulnerable person.
His defence solicitor claimed that he would join former county champions Leicestershire as a professional player after being offered a contract just before his arrest, on the condition that he was not jailed. However, the club deny having any links to him, saying today they were 'bemused' by the claims.
Sentencing Bashir to an 18-month jail term suspended for two years, Judge Mansell QC ordered him to attend a workshop entitled 'building better relationships' pay £1,000 costs and banned him from contacting Miss Karim indefinitely under the terms of a restraining order.
He told Bashir: 'This relationship started well but you began controlling her and how she spent her money.
'You told her how to spend her money and you tried to turn her against her family who you regularly insulted. She would buy clothes that were of a western style which you disapproved of and called her a slag and said her friends were "English slag girls".
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...t-wife-join-Leicestershire.html#ixzz4cXPZa6cq
