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| Jail term for Winehouse's husband | |
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| Singer Amy Winehouse's husband has been jailed for 27 months for attacking a pub landlord and perverting the course of justice. | |
| Blake Fielder-Civil, 26, of Camden, north London, admitted assaulting James King, 36, at the Macbeths pub in Hoxton, east London, in June 2006. | Blake Fielder-Civil, 26, of Camden, north London, admitted assaulting James King, 36, at the Macbeths pub in Hoxton, east London, in June 2006. |
| He also admitted at Snaresbrook Crown Court trying to make Mr King withdraw his complaint using a £200,000 bribe. | |
| Three other men were also jailed for perverting the course of justice. | |
| One of these men had also admitted assault. | |
| Fielder-Civil has already spent nine months in jail awaiting trial. | Fielder-Civil has already spent nine months in jail awaiting trial. |
| Mr King claimed he had been bullied into withdrawing his statement against Fielder-Civil and his friend Michael Brown, who offered him the bribe to drop his assault complaint. | |
| Mr King was found not guilty of perverting the course of justice at a trial in June. | |
| Brown and Fielder-Civil beat Mr King so badly that he needed plates fitted into his face for a broken cheekbone and still has counselling. | |
| Judge David Radford told Fielder-Civil he had behaved in a "gratuitous, cowardly and disgraceful" way. | |
| Fielder-Civil's wife, Amy Winehouse, was not at Snaresbrook Crown Court where the sentencing took place. | Fielder-Civil's wife, Amy Winehouse, was not at Snaresbrook Crown Court where the sentencing took place. |