{"id":27389,"date":"2018-10-03T12:30:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T11:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=27389"},"modified":"2018-10-03T12:30:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T11:30:23","slug":"man-jailed-for-a-knife-attack-on-ex-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/03\/man-jailed-for-a-knife-attack-on-ex-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Jailed For A knife Attack on Ex-Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man from Nottingham has been jailed for attacking his ex-wife with a knife.<\/p>\n<p>Zaher Bashir, 41, attacked his former partner back in April before passers-by intervened to help her.<\/p>\n<p>Police said he drove into the car his ex-wife and step-daughter were in, got out, smashed their car&#8217;s passenger window and after his ex-partner got out, he attacked her with a knife and drove into her twice.<\/p>\n<p>The victim suffered a large cut to her cheek, and her daughter, who was in a car with her, sustained hand cuts as she tried to protect her mother, officers said.<\/p>\n<p>Bashir was sentenced to 10 and a half years in jail.<\/p>\n<p>Bashir, of Berridge Road Central, Nottingham, pleaded guilty to wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, actual bodily harm, dangerous driving and breaching a restraining order.<\/p>\n<p>Det Con Glenn Finbow said: &#8220;This was a shocking and savage attack which, without the brave intervention of the members of the public, could have easily resulted in fatal consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Bashir was also given a restraining order, a six-and-a-half year driving ban, and was ordered to take an extended re-test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man from Nottingham has been jailed for attacking his ex-wife with a knife. Zaher Bashir, 41, attacked his former partner back in April before passers-by intervened to help her. Police said he drove into the car his ex-wife and step-daughter were in, got out, smashed their car&#8217;s passenger window and after his ex-partner got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,3],"tags":[915,1567,1569,1568,1566],"class_list":["post-27389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","tag-attack","tag-knife","tag-nottingham","tag-wife","tag-zaher-bashir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}