Amy Winehouse's husband, Blake Fielder-Civil has been jailed for perverting the course of justice and beating up a pub landlord. The 26 year old was sentenced to 27 months and told by Judge David Radford at Snaresbrook Crown Court, East London, that he had behaved in a "gratuitous, cowardly and disgraceful" way.

Fielder-Civil, and his friend beat up the landlord of the Macbeths pub in Hoxton, East London, in June 2006. The landlord sustained such serious injuries that he needed plates put into his face to repair a broken cheekbone.

Cowardly Fielder-Civil and his friend enlisted two other friends to pay Mr King $400,000 to ensure he did not testify. The so-called friends then attempted to sell footage of the pay-off to a newspaper reporter.

Nothing funny about any of that eh? No - but what is funny is the fact that Fielder-Civil appealed to a judge to let him walk free so he could become a role model for the troubled singer. That's like asking Britney to model the perfect mother.

Daily Telegraph