Amy Winehouse, who has for months pleaded with concert audiences for the
release of "my Blake," is going to have to wait several more months after her
husband was sentenced Monday to 27 months in jail for assault and obstructing
justice.
Blake Fielder-Civil has admitted beating up pub manager James King in a
barroom fight in 2006 and then offering him US$400,000 to keep quiet about it.
Judge David Radford told Fielder-Civil he had behaved in a "gratuitous,
cowardly and disgraceful" way.
Fielder-Civil has spent almost nine months in jail since his arrest, and
could be freed in December, once he has completed half his sentence.
Three other men—James Kennedy, Anthony Kelly and Michael Brown—pleaded guilty
to involvement in the plot. Brown received 33 months for assault and perverting
the course of justice, while the other two received shorter sentences.
King, the assault victim, was acquitted by a jury last month of trying to
pervert the course of justice. He said he was intimidated into withdrawing his
assault claim in exchange for cash.
Winehouse and Fielder-Civil married in Miami in May 2007. He was arrested in
November and has been in jail ever since. Winehouse was not at the London court.
