The Runcorn and Helsby MP, who was given a 10-week prison sentence on Monday for punching a man in the street, will attend an appeal hearing at Chester Crown Court on Thursday morning, a court spokesman said.
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”.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Tuesday, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said: “I want to see him either obviously resign or face recall, and so that we can have a new MP in place.”.
Jailed MP Mike Amesbury will return to court to appeal against his sentence.
Amesbury pleaded guilty in January to assaulting Paul Fellows, 45, following a row in the street in Frodsham, Cheshire, in the early hours of October 26.
