Former Labour MP Mike Amesbury has been jailed for 10 weeks at Chester Magistrates' Court after he admitted punching a man in the street in Frodsham, Cheshire, last October. The Runcorn and Helsby MP, who has been sitting as an Independent since he was suspended by the party following his arrest in October last year, appeared at Chester Magistrates’ Court on Monday.
He pleaded guilty at a hearing in January to assaulting 45-year-old Paul Fellows in Main Street in Frodsham, Cheshire, in the early hours of October 26. The court heard Amesbury, 55, had been drinking before he arrived at a taxi rank, where Mr Fellows approached him to remonstrate about a bridge closure in the town.
Footage showed Amesbury punching Mr Fellows to the head, knocking him to the ground, then following him on to the road and starting to punch him again, at least five times. He was then heard saying “You won’t threaten your MP again will you?”. Amesbury was suspended from the Labour Party after footage emerged which showed him punching Mr Fellows, and he subsequently resigned his membership.
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