Messi receives 21-month sentence for tax fraud - unlikely to be jailed

Footballer Lionel Messi and his father have been sentenced to 21 months for tax fraud.

Argentina and Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi and his father Jorge have been sentenced to 21 months in prison for tax fraud by a Catalan court, according to Spanish media sources.

But under Spanish law, sentences under two years are usually suspended and neither are likely to serve any time in prison.