Majeed pleads guilty

Agent Mazhar Majeed is awaiting sentencing along with the three Pakistan cricketers convicted of spot-fixing.

Four guilty men will be sentenced on Thursday

Agent Mazhar Majeed is awaiting sentencing along with the three Pakistan cricketers convicted of spot-fixing. All four men will know their fate on Thursday after the judge at Southwark Crown Court adjourned sentencing. He listened to pleas in mitigation from lawyers representing the four men throughout Wednesday afternoon. Earlier on Wednesday the judge lifted reporting restrictions on Majeed, who had pleaded guilty to corruption charges along with bowler Mohammad Amir on September 16. The pair did not therefore stand trial, unlike Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif, who both strenuously denied any involvement but were found guilty by a jury at London's Southwark Crown Court of conspiracy to cheat and conspiracy to accept corrupt payments. Majeed, 36, from Croydon in south London, admitted conspiracy to cheat and to obtain and accept corrupt payments. In court, prosecutor Aftab Jafferjee applied for a compensation order to repay the £150,000 ($240,000, 175,000 euros) that an undercover reporter from the now-defunct News of the World tabloid gave to Majeed.