07/04/2017 East Midlands Today

And now the news for the East Midlands.

A man who admitted attacking his wife,

but was spared jail, is behind bars tonight.

Mustafa Bashir was given a suspended sentence -

after a judge was told he'd been offered a professional contract by

But the contract never existed and today that same

Mustafa Bashir arrived at court today knowing he had some explaining

Last month, he narrowly avoided jail when he admitted

attacking his former wife with a cricket bat

The judge suspended an 18 month prison sentence partly because

he had been told Bashir was about to sign a contract with

The club then revealed they had never heard of Bashir,

And so, today, the 33-year-old was ordered back before

Today, Bashir was represented in court by a new barrister who said

his client hadn't intended to mislead anyone and there had been

Well, Judge Richard Mansell was having

He said there had been no series of misunderstandings and

said, I was fundamentally misled by you as to your personal

He said he had no hesitation in now imposing an

immediate prison term, something which he said he would have done

originally, had he been aware of the true position.

In a statement, Leicestershire said...

Meanwhile, Judge Mansell addressed criticisms

made of him over his original sentencing remarks.

particularly vulnerable, due to her circumstances.

Today, he said he wanted to make it clear, he had

always considered her to be vulnerable, but sentencing

guidelines set out clearly different levels of vulnerability, which

judges have to take into consideration when sentencing.

Through the police, Bashir's victim said she was satisfied with

Bashir, meantime, may now be investigated for the separate

offence of perverting the course of justice.

David Guest, BBC East Midlands Today, Manchester.

Staff at a benefits office in Nottinghamshire have staged

a protest against its planned closure.

The Department for Work and Pensions says the building

in Annesley is no longer needed, putting around 130 jobs at risk.

A consultation on the propals ends at midnight

and unions say they'll fight to keep the office open.

Well, it's likely that we will have to talk to members about industrial

Ultimately, it will be members to make that decision, but

we, of course, cannot rule out taking strike action to support this

office being kept open and to support this community.

11 people have been jailed for a combined total of over 42

years for their part in an insurance scam where they deliberately

caused dozens of car crashes across Derbyshire.

The gang, mostly from the East Midlands,

targeted older or lone female drivers and made claims

using false identities and through fraudulent companies.

The judge said the victims have been harmed emotionally and physically.

It was a load of blood, sweat and tears over

the three and a half years of the investigation.

It was like trying to boot a jigsaw together and identify all

the different angles and aspects of the fraud.

The sentence provided today by the court will hopefully

send out a message that this type of offence will be taken seriously,

investigated thoroughly and will not be tolerated.

A group of shopkeepers in a conservation area of Leicester

are demanding restrictions are eased so they can better protect

their properties.Five businesses were either vandalised or burgled

It's the fourth time in two years shops have been targetted.

The City Council says it will meet owners to discuss their concerns.

Together with the other shop owners in this

area, we want to protect our property, we want the council, we

want the city centre director to listen to us

and allow us to protect our property with shutters.

Never mind the issue we've got with preservation, what about my

Organisers of Leicestershire's Download Festival are spending half

a million pounds improving the site after weather and travel

Tens of thousands of rock fans were left drenched

They also struggled to leave Donington Park

Torrential downpours making Download in 2016 the wettest on record.

Festivalgoers were forced to trudge through inches of mud and

torrents of water surrounding their tents.

More than four inches of rain fell across the 650 acre Donington

Park site last year in just 45 minutes.

And that's enough to fill more than 100 Olympic sized swimming

Now, organisers here want to make sure they are ready if the

heavy rain again threatens to swamp the heavy metal.

They are using this heavy metal to build 3,000 metres of

new drains, quadruple what's already here,

to help with if what they call Biblical rain comes again.

We had 17 million gallons of rain come down in that 45 minutes.

That would be a challenge to anybody that wasn't expecting it and we

So, we've really put the new drains in and

the ditches to drain it all away and tried to respond

And another major problem last year, the closure of the nearby M1

after an unconnected motorway protest, just as thousands tried to

Now, there will be four more entrances and exits and

hundreds of helpers to react to road and site conditions.

The Download family as part of an incredible

community and the festivalgoers have told us to do that and we have

So, a new look Park to welcome this year's headliners a

rule Smith and the tens of thousands of fans,

rain comes down, Download will still be on the up.

More news from me and the team here across the weekend,

but let's check on that all important forecast

Well, what a weekend we've got on the

Dry, fine, lengthy spells of sunshine.

Now, it's going to feel warm tomorrow, but it's going to

And that's all thanks to high pressure dominating our weather.

And it's going to stay settled as we head overnight

It could lead to a little bit of patchy

And quite chilly, temperatures down to about four to seven

In more rural spots, it'll be a little bit cooler than that.

Then the breeze starts to come in from the south.

A gentle breeze, but it does mean that

those temperatures will continue to rise.

Highs tomorrow of about 18 degrees, which is 64 Fahrenheit.

That's going to lead us to a perfect end to the day.

Definitely one for spending outdoors.

Then another fine day on Sunday, too.

Again, a little bit chilly to start, but as we head

through the day, highs of 20 degrees a lovely day.

That's all from us here on the late team.

I'm going to leave you with the summary, the

Monday, and north-westerly wind will drag in more cloud and temperatures

will be down by 8-9 . Hello, my advice would be to make

the most of the weather this weekend, if you can. Because there

will be a good day love sunshine on offer and it will continue to warm

up as well. This picture was taken in Cumbria, at Workington, later in

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