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| Jack Tweed has left prison after serving half a 12-week sentence for assaulting a taxi driver. | Jack Tweed has left prison after serving half a 12-week sentence for assaulting a taxi driver. |
| Tweed, whose reality TV star wife Jade Goody died in March, was found guilty of the attack on Stephen Wilkins after a night out in Epping, Essex, last May. | Tweed, whose reality TV star wife Jade Goody died in March, was found guilty of the attack on Stephen Wilkins after a night out in Epping, Essex, last May. |
| When he was sentenced, magistrates told Tweed they would have passed a longer sentence had it not been for a change in "his personal circumstances". | When he was sentenced, magistrates told Tweed they would have passed a longer sentence had it not been for a change in "his personal circumstances". |
| He was on bail for the assault of a boy, 16, when he attacked Mr Wilkins. | He was on bail for the assault of a boy, 16, when he attacked Mr Wilkins. |
| Monitoring tag | Monitoring tag |
| Tweed left Edmunds Hill Prison near Newmarket, Suffolk, shortly after 1000 BST. | Tweed left Edmunds Hill Prison near Newmarket, Suffolk, shortly after 1000 BST. |
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| Tweed married mother-of-two Goody a month before she died of cancer in April. | Tweed married mother-of-two Goody a month before she died of cancer in April. |
| He was jailed by magistrates in Harlow, Essex, after a court heard he attacked Stephen Wilkins in Epping, Essex, in May 2008. | He was jailed by magistrates in Harlow, Essex, after a court heard he attacked Stephen Wilkins in Epping, Essex, in May 2008. |
| Prosecutors said Tweed threatened to stab the taxi driver while the car was travelling at 50mph. | Prosecutors said Tweed threatened to stab the taxi driver while the car was travelling at 50mph. |
| It was claimed he lost his temper after being asked to pay the fare in advance. | It was claimed he lost his temper after being asked to pay the fare in advance. |
| In September 2008 he was given an 18-month jail sentence after being convicted of hitting a 16-year-old boy with a golf club. | In September 2008 he was given an 18-month jail sentence after being convicted of hitting a 16-year-old boy with a golf club. |
| He was released from prison on licence in January and ordered to wear a monitoring tag and observe a curfew. | He was released from prison on licence in January and ordered to wear a monitoring tag and observe a curfew. |