{"id":28982,"date":"2025-02-24T08:47:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T13:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=28982"},"modified":"2025-02-24T08:47:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T13:47:31","slug":"mp-mike-amesbury-jailed-for-punching-constituent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2025\/02\/24\/mp-mike-amesbury-jailed-for-punching-constituent\/","title":{"rendered":"MP Mike Amesbury jailed for punching constituent"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Suspended Labour MP Mike Amesbury has been jailed for 10 weeks after he admitted punching a man to the ground in his Cheshire constituency.<\/b><\/p>\n

Amesbury, 55, who represents Runcorn and Helsby as an independent MP, pleaded guilty to assaulting 45-year-old Paul Fellows after video footage emerged showing the confrontation.<\/p>\n

He had his Labour whip removed after the incident in Frodsham, Cheshire, which happened in the early hours of 26 October.<\/p>\n

Sitting at Chester Magistrates’ Court, Deputy Chief Magistrate Tan Ikram said a pre-sentence report showed Amesbury’s actions were the result of a “anger and loss of emotional control”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Amesbury was taken down to the cells immediately and an application for bail pending an appeal was refused.<\/p>\n

Addressing the MP before handing down the jail term<\/a>, the magistrate said: “I have to say that I have seen a single punch to the head cause fatal injuries, but note the limited injuries in this case.<\/p>\n

“I note that you, Mr Amesbury, continued to punch Mr Fellows when he was on the ground and continued to shout at Mr Fellows. I consider this more culpable.<\/p>\n

“You continued to attack when he was on the ground and it may have continued further had a bystander not intervened,” the magistrate said.<\/p>\n

“You continued to rant, your position ought to be as a role model to others.”<\/p>\n

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‘Unprovoked drunken behaviour’<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Passing sentence, the magistrate said the immediate custodial sentence was “necessary both as a punishment and a deterrent”.<\/p>\n

He said he accepted the incident was one incident “in an otherwise unblemished career”.<\/p>\n

“You have spent your life in public service and served in high office”, he told Amesbury.<\/p>\n

But the magistrate said he was of “the view that unprovoked drunken behaviour is too serious to be dealt with unpaid work”.<\/p>\n

Mr Ikram said he had also considered how the MP was “unlikely to re-offend”.<\/p>\n

But he said: “You were only stopped from going further by members of the public.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Richard Derby, representing Amesbury, asked the magistrate: “Is that an immediate sentence?”<\/p>\n

Mr Ikram nodded and replied: “Yes,” before leaving the courtroom, having told the MP he must also pay the victim’s costs.<\/p>\n

Amesbury was joined in the dock by two security guards who took him down to the cells.<\/p>\n

From there, he was set to be taken to HMP Altcourse in Liverpool.<\/p>\n

Mr Derby requested the judge come back into court as he wished to make an application for bail for Amesbury, pending an appeal against his sentence.<\/p>\n

Mr Ikram returned to court, sat down, paused briefly, and said: “Application refused.”<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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