Former Labour MP Mike Amesbury has had his 10-week prison sentence for assault suspended for two years following an appeal at Chester Crown Court.
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.
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”.
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.
Honorary Recorder of Chester Judge Steven Everett, sitting with two magistrates, imposed another sentence of 10 weeks’ imprisonment but suspended it for two years.
