Winehouse husband jailed

Singer Amy Winehouse’s husband was today jailed for trial-fixing and beating up a former pub landlord.

Blake Fielder-Civil, 26, was sentenced to 27 months at Snaresbrook Crown Court, east London, after admitting grievous bodily harm and perverting the course of justice in a £200,000 (€252,000) trial-fixing plot aimed at trying to save him from jail.

Fielder-Civil and friend Michael Brown beat James King, 36, so badly in June 2006 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 has already served around nine months on remand so he could be free in four-and-a-half months if he behaves himself in prison.

Miss Winehouse was not in court today to support her husband.