A man who beat his wife with a cricket bat and forced her to drink bleach has been resentenced to 18 months after he avoided jail at an earlier hearing by falsely claiming to have a job offer as a professional cricketer.Mustafa Bashir, 34, admitted assaulting Fakhara Karim, 33, but was initially given a suspended sentence at Manchester crown court after he said Leicestershire County Cricket Club had offered him a contract.
On Wednesday, judge Richard Mansell QC ordered Bashir’s sentence to be reviewed because “further information relevant to the sentence has become available to the court”.
Leicestershire CCC said in a statement after the jail sentence was handed down on Friday that it was happy to have “played its part” in justice being done.
The chief executive, Wasim Khan, said: “The club is deeply committed to the White Ribbon campaign set up to tackle domestic violence, so we were horrified at being used as a means for someone who had been convicted of appalling violence to his wife to escape imprisonment.
