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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.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.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. Three other men were also sentenced for perverting the course of justice.
One of these men had also admitted assault. Michael Brown, 25, from Carshalton, south London also admitted assault for his part in the attack, that left Mr King needing plates fitted into his face for a broken cheekbone. He was jailed for 33 months.
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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. Anthony Kelly, 25, from Chalk Farm, north London, was given a custodial sentence of 20 months after admitting perverting the course of justice.
James Kennedy, 19, from Hatfield, Hertfordshire, who also admitted the charge, was given a 40-week sentence at a young offenders institute, suspended for 12 months.
Fielder-Civil has already spent nine months in jail on remand.
'Punched and kicked'
Judge David Radford said Fielder-Civil was high on alcohol and cocaine when he and Brown attacked Mr King outside the pub.
He said Fielder Civil joined in the attack "out of a mistaken sense of loyalty to your friend".
"The fact remains that in joining in that attack by kicking out at Mr King after he had already been both punched and kicked by Mr Brown you behaved in a gratuitous, cowardly and disgraceful way.
"It will be of little comfort to Mr King that you did so because of your inebriation."
The court heard after the attack, Mr King was bullied into withdrawing his statement against Fielder-Civil and his friend, 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.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.