Amy Winehouse's husband jailed

Blake Fielder-Civil, the husband of Grammy Award-winning singer Amy Winehouse, was sentenced to 15 months for causing grievous bodily harm and 12 months for trying to pervert the course of justice, totalling 27 months in jail, at Snaresbrook Crown Court in East London yesterday.

Fielder-Civil admitted helping to assault James King, landlord of the Macbeth pub in Hoxton, East London and attempting to bribe him to keep quiet about the incident using an offer of £200,000.

Judge David Radford noted that Fielder-Civil "had access to his wife's money" in order to fund the bribe plot, which would have seen King disappear to Spain had it been successful.

Fielder-Civil's lawyer Jeremy Dein QC noted that his client had an "intimate relationship with drug addiction" including heroin and cocaine as well as a history of self-harm and suicide attempts.

However he added that he was completely devoted to his Back to Black singer wife, explaining: "It's their ambition to divorce themselves from hard drugs, not to separate themselves from each other."

Judge Radford told Fielder-Civil that he had "behaved in a gratuitous, cowardly and disgraceful way".

Winehouse did not attend the hearing.

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