A gambling addict with mental health issues who tried to blackmail boxer Amir Khan with a made up sex tape claim has been spared an immediate custodial sentence after the sportsman expressed a wish he get treatment.
Bolton Crown Court heard that 27 year old Hamza Din, who was completely unknown to Mr Khan, sent the boxing star’s management company an e-mail claiming unless he received money he would release a supposed video recording of Mr Khan with a girl in a hotel room in Newcastle. No such event ever took place, no such video exists, it was all fabricated in Din's crude attempt to blackmail the sportsman.
Din, of Dryburn Way in Durham, and previously of Marton-in Cleveland, in Cleveland, pleaded guilty to a single charge of blackmail and was sentenced to 16 months in prison, suspended for two years and a mental health treatment requirement to the sentence was also imposed.
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