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| Jade Goody's widower Jack Tweed has been jailed for 12 weeks for assaulting a taxi driver. | |
| Tweed, whose reality TV star wife recently died from cancer, was found guilty last month of attacking Stephen Wilkins in Epping, Essex, in May 2008. | Tweed, whose reality TV star wife recently died from cancer, was found guilty last month of attacking Stephen Wilkins in Epping, Essex, in May 2008. |
| The 21-year-old, of Buckhurst Hill, Essex, had denied the offence. | The 21-year-old, of Buckhurst Hill, Essex, had denied the offence. |
| He appeared at Harlow Magistrates' Court for sentencing. During the hearing his lawyer said Tweed had matured since the offence. | |
| The conviction was the second time in six months that Tweed had been found guilty of assault. | |
| In September, he was given an 18-month jail sentence by a judge at Chelmsford Crown Court after being found guilty of hitting a 16-year-old boy with a golf club. | |
| Tweed also denied that assault. | |
| He was released from prison on licence in January, having to wear a monitoring tag and observe a curfew. | |
| The curfew was relaxed to allow him to spend his wedding night with mother-of-two Ms Goody in February after a ceremony in Hatfield Heath, Essex. | |
| The former Big Brother contestant, 27, died two months later following a well-publicised battle with cancer. | |
| She was buried on 4 April. |