Butt's family claims he is 'innocent'

The family of former Pakistan cricket captain Salman Butt maintained that he was innocent any crime despite being found guilty of ‘spot-fixing’ charges in a London court.

Butt’s family members blamed the Pakistan media of being “unhelpful” to their cause.

Butt’s sister snubbed the waiting media outside the banned captain’s home here terming them as being “unhelpful.”
 
“You should realise that you the media is not being helpful by conducting a media trial of Salman. We know our brother is innocent of all these charges,” she was quoted as saying by the Press Trust of India news agency.

She claimed the trial by media had not helped her brother’s case.
 
Butt’s mother told reporters outside her home that she had no grievances with the verdict of the jury in the London court which found her son guilty of corruption charges.
 
“What I know is that God is the one who gives Izzat (respect) and Zillat (disgrace) to everyone. Only he knows the reasons for this. As far as I know my son we have not brought him up in such a way that he should be corrupt. We believe he is innocent,” she said.
 
She made it clear that the family would defend Butt till the end but as far as his trial and what the conviction would be tomorrow (Wednesday) were concerned they had left it up to God.
 
“Whatever happens now is God’s will and we are ready to accept anything. But our son is innocent.”

The guilty verdicts came on the day Butt’s wife Gul gave birth to their second son in Lahore.

“It is a day of sadness and happiness for us,” Butt’s father Zulfiqar Butt told reporters earlier. 

“We are shocked by this verdict and will fight to the end. But at the same time God has given us a new life.” 
 

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