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| Landlord acquitted of cash bribe | Landlord acquitted of cash bribe |
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| A man who was beaten up by singer Amy Winehouse's husband has been cleared of accepting a £200,000 bribe to drop his assault complaint. | A man who was beaten up by singer Amy Winehouse's husband has been cleared of accepting a £200,000 bribe to drop his assault complaint. |
| Pub landlord James King, 36, was found not guilty of perverting the course of justice at Snaresbrook Crown Court. | Pub landlord James King, 36, was found not guilty of perverting the course of justice at Snaresbrook Crown Court. |
| He had been left with serious injuries after a beating by Blake Fielder-Civil, 26, and his friend Michael Brown, 25. | He had been left with serious injuries after a beating by Blake Fielder-Civil, 26, and his friend Michael Brown, 25. |
| They have both admitted grievous bodily harm in relation to the attack in Hoxton, east London, in June 2006. | They have both admitted grievous bodily harm in relation to the attack in Hoxton, east London, in June 2006. |
| Two other men, Anthony Kelly, 25, of Chalk Farm, north London, and James Kennedy, 19, of Hatfield, Hertfordshire, had pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice around November last year. | |
| All of them are to be sentenced at a date to be fixed in July. | |
| Mr King always claimed he had been bullied into withdrawing his statement against Fielder-Civil and Brown last November. | |
| He told the jury he had been intimidated by Anthony Kelly, who told him he had "no option" but to withdraw his evidence so that Fielder-Civil and Brown would be found not guilty of assault. |