LONDON, Oct 27, 2011 (AFP) – The jury in a spot-fixing hearing of former Pakistan Test captain Salman Butt as well as quick bowler Mohammad Asif were sent home for a night upon Thursday as well as will go upon their deliberations upon Friday.
Prosecutors lay which Butt, 27, as well as Asif, 28, conspired with British representative Mazher Majeed as well as bowler Mohammad Aamer to broach 3 conscious no-balls during a Lord’s Test in between Pakistan as well as England in Aug 2010.
Butt as well as Asif have both pleaded not guilty to charges of swindling to acquire as well as accept hurtful payments, as well as swindling to lie during gambling.
Over 3 weeks of justification during Southwark Crown Court, a jury of 6 group as well as 6 women has listened which there have been outrageous sums to be done by regulating tools of matches, well known as spot-fixing, for gambling syndicates.
Butt as well as Asif were charged after allegations about their impasse in spot-fixing appeared in a now-defunct News of a World tabloid, owned by Australian-born media aristocrat Rupert Murdoch, prior to long after a Lord’s Test.
The hearing judge, Justice Jeremy Cooke, accomplished his summing-up of a box upon Thursday prior to promulgation a jury out to begin their deliberations.
Majeed as well as Aamer have been confronting a same charges though have been not station trial.
Jury out in Pakistan spot-fixing trial
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