Daily Mail - Family fears for Amy Winehouse after husband is arrested - Archive

Here's an update - with comments from Mitch and Blake's mother:

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"Baby, I love you...baby, I'll be fine," Amy Winehouse sobbed before her junkie husband Blake Fielder-Civil was bundled into an unmarked police car. The dramatic scenes unfolded on Thursday night as Fielder-Civil was arrested for alleged involvement in a plot to fix a trial for Â£200,000. The bombshell claims against him plunged the already troubled singer Miss Winehouse into renewed turmoil. But she has said she is standing by her man.

Fielder-Civil had been due to stand trial next Monday accused of a brutal attack on a barman, which could see him jailed if convicted. But detectives are now investigating sensational allegations that a witness in that case was offered a cash payoff to change his story.
Police are examining whether Fielder-Civil was involved in an audacious plot to pervert the course of justice. He was one of four men arrested on Thursday evening in a series of dramatic raids in London. He was handcuffed in front of his hysterical wife before he taken away by police.

It came hours after officers had battered their way into the couple's home in Camden, North London, and spent three hours searching for evidence among their personal belongings. They were not there at the time, but police caught up with them later at a flat in Bow, East London. Now Miss Winehouse's family fear for her health as the latest drama in her life unfolds.

The award-winning jazz diva has fought battles against drugs and depression and is understood to be desperately worried that her husband could face a lengthy jail sentence. There is no suggestion Miss Winehouse, 24, knew anything about the alleged plot, which came to light in secretly filmed meetings involving her husband.

The red door is prised open by the specially-trained entry expert in the raid on Thursday night at the singer's houseAn officer steps up to the door armed with a crowbar. She was not present at the meetings, but police will be keen to find out if she can help them in any way with their inquiries.

Yesterday her taxi driver father Mitch Winehouse visited her house - needing to first retrieve keys from the police - and left with two Harvey Nichols bags of belongings including a bath robe and towel, suggesting that his daughter, who went into hiding at a friend's house, does not plan to return soon. Mr Winehouse, 57, said: "Clearly, this is very serious. "Despite what has been said I have no wish for Blake to go to prison. "I've no wish for that as Amy and Blake are very much in love.

"Obviously she's very upset and as her father I am upset and so are the rest of my family. "Georgette and Giles - Blake's parents - and my family are standing right behind our children and will make sure they get all the help, love and support they need.'

He added: "I'm not 100 per cent sure where Amy is. I know she's with friends and being looked after." Asked about 25-year-old Fielder-Civil, Scotland Yard confirmed that four men - aged 19, 22, and two aged 25 - had been arrested and were being questioned at separate police stations in connection with allegedly attempting to pervert justice in relation to next week's trial.

Fielder-Civil and his friend Michael Brown, 39, are charged with grievous bodily harm for allegedly attacking barman James King. He required metal plates fitted in his face after being assault at the trendy Macbeth pub in Hoxton, East London, on June 20.
Two weeks ago, two men contacted the Daily Mirror newspaper claiming they had CCTV footage of the attack. The two men allegedly provided the Daily Mirror with details of an attempt to get one of the witnesses to the assault to change his evidence.

Police were tipped off and, on Thursday, arrested the two men and a fourth man outside a pub before swooping on the flat in Camden Town where Fielder-Civil and Miss Winehouse live. If convicted, he could be jailed as both GBH and perverting justice are charges carrying maximum sentences of life in prison.

At a previous hearing, Fielder-Civil denied GBH with intent. Yesterday the Crown Prosecution Service said the trial was still listed to go ahead on Monday, but legal sources said that would probably change over the weekend. A spokesman for the singer would not elaborate on the fast-moving developments, but said: "The only thing I can tell you is that it has nothing to do with drugs and that Amy is fine and she has not been charged or arrested."

A friend of Miss Winehouse said: "Most of her circle are hoping this will be a wake-up call to her to get on with her life. "She seemed absolutely fine with it and already seems to have snapped out of this obsession she has with him. "She is a survivor and is already moving on without him."

Brit award winner Miss Winehouse has received critical acclaim for her music but is under intense scrutiny due to her erratic lifestyle.
Her family spoke recently of their fears for her health following her struggles with drugs, alcohol and bulimia. She has cancelled a string of gigs this year and has been on a path of self-destruction ever since suffering a drugs overdose three months ago, according to friends.

Last month she was arrested in a Norway hotel and charged with possessing cannabis, and a week ago she shocked the MTV music awards in Munich by slurring her way through the song Back To Black before being helped off stage. She has twice failed attempts at rehab and her father recently said he was "sickened and wanted to die" after seeing shocking pictures of his daughter with blood seeping through her shoes, allegedly from heroin injections between her toes.

Yesterday evening her mother Janis Winehouse, who is divorced from her father, told the Daily Mail: "I am obviously worried about how Amy will cope if Blake is not around, but what happens happens, and I will always be there for her." Later, a friend said Miss Winehouse was planning to stay at her father's home in Greenhithe, Kent.

And the singer insisted: "Blake's told me he's done nothing wrong and I believe him. Whatever happens I'll be there for him." She told her mother-in-law Georgette Civil: "I love him and I just want him home." Mrs Civil, 42, a hair salon boss from Newark, Nottinghamshire, said her son had told her: "Don't worry about me. I'm fine. I'm all right." She added: "He would never try to fix his trial. It's just ridiculous. I know that and Amy knows that.

"Blake intended to plead not guilty but we have all been desperately worried that he would be locked up if a jury found him guilty. We are very anxious. "Blake's been in custody all day. I managed to speak to him on the phone and he told me not to worry. "Amy has told me she will stand by Blake whatever happens."

Last night Scotland Yard said that a fifth man, aged 36, had been arrested

Yeah I always tried not to let the tabloids influence me when they were bashing on him. I always told myself we don't know what he's like, we don't know the truth and it's too easy blaming everything on him. But now.. I've lost all reason to defend him and to stop myself from thinking negative things about him. I saw him on the DVD and I couldn't help but say 'asshole' out loud and get really sad when she said I love you to him. She might be trouble, but she still deserves better. He needs to stop hurting the people around him and get fucking real.

Yeah, I agree. And he makes....Kevin Federline look like the perfect husband...which is bad. Very bad.

I hope that Amy is someplace safe.

If my man was fighting some unholy war
I'll be beside him..

How true. She's a good woman...she deserves someone who won't drag her down.[/i]

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