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Will follow, thanks!
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Oh and this case is clearly very far from the Bashir case. VERY far. I don't think it deserves any parallels.
The abuse was not single but ongoing, sadly.
'Bashir met Karim in their native Pakistan and married her in 2013. The court heard that he berated her for wearing western clothing, tried to turn her against her own family, would call her a “slag” when she went out with her female friends, and repeatedly beat her.
The court was told that Bashir once struck Karim over her back with his cricket bat because he felt she spent too long talking to a friend on the phone, saying: “If I hit you with this bat with my full power then you would be dead.”
On another occasion, Bashir, who plays in a local cricket league in Oldham, Greater Manchester, forced his wife to take tablets and drink bleach, and told her to kill herself during an argument concerned with his going on a cricket tour to the Netherlands.
Karim eventually went to the police and said: “I did fear for my life; he told me he was going to kill me.”
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Ah I really need to sub that blog, it's a good read indeed. The conclusions is on the nail.
For me; male, female, smart, dumb, career or not, a prison sentence would not be the way to bring about reform, from what appears to be an isolated and idiotic incident. People make mistakes. But it sounds like the media are just biting on the scrap they can find.
I am very anti prison. I don't really belive in it as a punishment (leading to reform), but as a means of removing repeat and dangerous offenders from a society then cannot abide by.