Man hits wife for 6.
The attorney general has been urged to examine the sentencing remarks of a judge who freed a man guilty of domestic abuse because he did not believe the victim was vulnerable.
Mustafa Bashir, 34, was spared prison despite forcing his wife to drink bleach, throttling her in public, and striking her with his cricket bat.
He admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm and was given an 18-month prison term, suspended for two years.
Judge Richard Mansell QC ordered Bashir to attend a workshop entitled “building better relationships”, pay £1,000 costs and banned him from contacting Karim.
Bashir (real name) has also been sent on a bleach abusers course.