Manchester wife beater spared jail over 'cricket contract' sent to prison.
Mustafa Bashir has now been jailed for 18 months.
Last updated 7th Apr 2017
A man spared a prison sentence for domestic violence after a court was told he would lose an offer to play professional cricket if he was jailed is now behind bars.
Mustafa Bashir, 33, (pictured) was given a suspended sentence at Manchester Crown Court on 22nd March for assaulting his wife, Fakhara Karim. He'd subjected her to an assault with a cricket bat and forced her to drink bleach.
Judge Richard Mansell QC was told at the time that if Bashir was spared custody he would be employed as a professional player by Leicestershire County Cricket Club and was about to sign the contract'' when he was arrested for beating his wife.
Bashir had produced a letter, purportedly from his agent, to back his claim.
But the club later said this claim was wholly false''.
He was given an 18-month sentence, suspended for two years, after admitting assault occasioning actual bodily harm, assault by beating, destroying or damaging property and using a destructive substance with intent to maim.
At the same court on Friday, Judge Mansell revoked the suspended sentence and imposed one of immediate custody.