The Runcorn and Helsby MP, who was given a 10-week prison sentence on Monday for punching a man in the street, appeared at Chester Crown Court on Thursday for an appeal hearing.
The appeal hearing was told in a prepared statement given in a police interview, Amesbury initially claimed he had been approached by a man “shouting and screaming” about local and national matters, including a local swing bridge and immigration.
At Chester Magistrates’ Court on Monday, deputy senior district judge Tan Ikram told Amesbury an immediate custodial sentence was necessary “as a punishment and a deterrent”.
Jailed MP Mike Amesbury has had his prison sentence suspended following an appeal.
Footage, played again in court, 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.
