Pakistan cricketer Asif released from UK jail

Pakistan cricket Mohammed Asif was released from a British jail Thursday after completing half of his 12-month sentence after being found guilty in a spot-fixing scandal.

Updated on: May 3, 2012, 22:41:35 IST

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Pakistan cricket Mohammed Asif was released from a British jail Thursday after completing half of his 12-month sentence after being found guilty in a spot-fixing scandal. The 29-year-old Asif, a former World No.2 Test bowler, was released from Canterbury Prison in Kent on Thursday morning, his London-based law firm SJS Solicitors said.

In November, along with team mates Salman Butt and Mohammad Aamer, Asif was jailed after the Southwark Crown Court in London found the trio guilty of conspiring to cheat and accept corrupt payments over bowling deliberate no-balls bowled during the Lord’s Test against England in August 2010.

Aamer was released in February after three months in jail and is currently in Pakistan. Butt and their agent Mazhar Majeed is still serving a two-and-a-half year sentence for their role. The court had identified Butt as the “chief orchestrator” of the plot.

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