No freedom for Winehouse’s husband
Amy Winehouse has been in the news a lot lately with her drug problems and recent hospitalization. Her husband isn’t often as news-worthy, but Blake Fielder-Civil will spend some more time in prison, and that was enough to make the news.
Fielder-Civil was originally arrested in November of 2007 after he assaulted a bar owner in London. That would not have gotten him that much jail time, but then he turned around and tried to “pervert the course of justice” by offering the bar owner $400,000 to just shut up about the whole thing and let it go. He ended up in trouble for the assault and for the bribery, as well. Winehouse had only married him a few months before this assault took place and Fielder-Civil has been in jail since his November arrest nine months ago.
On July 21st he was sentenced to 27 months in prison, but part of that will be time that he’s already served. There is also the chance for time off for good behavior and other issues, which means in another nine months he might be eligible to get out.
Winehouse wasn’t in the court room when Fielder-Civil was sentenced. Supposedly Fielder-Civil had used drugs while incarcerated, and that likely led to a stiffer sentence than he otherwise would have received.
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