Patric evero was on Friday handed a 12-month suspended sentence for allegedly abandoning his family according to reports the former Manchester United and Juventus fullback was also ordered to pay more than $1 million in alamon to his estranged wife's Sandra as well as 2200 inlegal costs and 4,300 for moral damages in the case filed by his wife who accused him of abandoning her and their two kids between May 2021 and September 2023 the messy developments came more than 4 years since everra filed for a divorce in 2020 to end their 13-year marriage which of today remains incomplete speaking after the ruling ever lawyers who submitted an immediate Appeal on the verdict refuted the claims of Abandonment citing that the former French International who retired in 2019 gave his wife with an apartment a house with a swimming pool in South France and around 2 million loan for upkeep which she has refused to refund and decided to file a case instead on the other hand sanders lawyer supports the court decision stating that the law does not allow Evra who has already moved on and had two kids with a Danish model to just ditch his wife and children overnight especially considering that were childhood sweethearts for the former left back who made 379 appearances for United from 2006 to 2014 the court decision required a little celebration as he took to social media to react with a video playing basketball while in cuffs prison jumpsuit and dollar sign chain in a caged Court alongside a caption that reads let me shut down this rubbish news look how much I enjoyed myself in prison # a love this game and # freedom