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Headline!Leicestershire welcome cricketer jail term after assault case is reopened - wi - 04-09-2017
Leicestershire welcome cricketer jail term after assault case is reopened
[html]A club cricketer will have his sentence for assault reviewed after Leicestershire intervened to stress that he was not negotiating a contract with the county[/html]
Source: Leicestershire welcome cricketer jail term after assault case is reopened
Re: Headline!Leicestershire welcome cricketer jail term after assault case is reopened - pwarbi - 04-09-2017
This is a pretty strange story, and this actually happened in my home town Manchester, so as been all over my newspaper.
What I and a lot of other people don't understand, is why did the judge take into consideration that he said he had a pro contract lined up anyway? Is he saying that if you're a professional cricketer, then you can get away with breaking the law? That's what it seems like.
Now it's come to light that he actually hasn't got a contract lined up, so they jailed him. He should have been jailed regardless in my opinion.