Complex sentence: Jasper was born on 4 November 1958 in Manchester, Lancashire, to a mixed heritage family, his British-born mother being of Irish and Sierra-Leonean descent and his father Jamaican.
Split into simpler sentences: Jasper was born on 4 November 1958 in Manchester, Lancashire, to a mixed heritage family. His British-born mother being of Irish and Sierra-Leonean descent and his father Jamaican.