The Star Report: Amy Winehouse's husband to stay in jail; 'An appointment with calamity awaits'
By Jeff Thomas, from Mercury News wire services Article Launched: 07/21/2008 09:03:47 PM PDT
Tilt-a-whirl songstress
Amy Winehouse will have to wait at least another five months to reconnect with her No. 1 drug buddy, husband
Blake Fielder-Civil.He was sentenced to 27 months in prison for assault and obstructing justice. He's already served nine months and will be eligible for release in December, by which time he will have spent more time behind bars than he has married to Amy!
Fielder-Civil has admitted beating up pub manager James King in a barroom fight in 2006 and then offering him $400,000 to keep quiet.
Judge
David Radford told Fielder-Civil he had behaved in a "gratuitous, cowardly and disgraceful" way.
In a somewhat surprising and disappointing development, Winehouse, who for months has appealed for the release of "my Blake," was not at the London court.
Lawyer
Jeremy Dein tried mightily to spin the judge, saying Fielder-Civil was "of exemplary good character" and should be freed. But Judge Radford said, essentially, bollocks. "Exemplary good character" was stretching it, "if what I read about him and the use of drugs is true."
At which time Dein admitted that Fielder-Civil had an "intimate relationship with drug addiction" but that he and Winehouse were determined to rebuild their lives.
He closed with this eloquent summation, filled with poignancy and maybe a bit of truthiness, and proving once again why we should be grateful that there'll always be an England:
"It's
their ambition to divorce themselves from hard drugs, not to separate themselves from each other," Dein said. "He knows that if he fails, an appointment with calamity awaits, not just for him, but for his wife as well."
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