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 is to return to court later this week 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.
