Amy Winehouse’s husband, or Blake Fielder-Civil as he’s also known, has changed his plea from not guilty to guilty.
Fielder Civil, 26, has admitted on June 20, 2006, he did indeed assault James King.
Obviously, it isn’t the James King who does those movie reviews for Radio 1 that we’re referring to as, in the eyes of any judge, assaulting him would be no crime at all.
The James King we speak of is the landlord of Macbeth’s pub in London, and Fielder-Civil has also pleaded guilty to conspiring to pervert the cause of justice by offering James King money in return for him dropping the allegations as well as leaving the country.
This will no doubt be great news for Amy Winehouse who, it is has been alleged, wants her husband – who she promised to stand by till death does ‘em part – to remain in jail for as long as he can.
Fielder-Civil will be sentenced next month, after the trial of his co-defendants is expected to finish.
According to UK sentencing guidelines, Blake can expect to spend about three years in jail for the GBH offence, as well as fined and/or more time in jail for the justice perverting. He was arrested seven months ago to the day, back in 9th November 2007, but was denied bail and remains on remand. Any sentencing will take this in to consideration.
Amy Winehouse didn’t bother turning up to Snaresbrook Crown Court to see Blake plead guilty. A ‘family friend’ told People:
She is obsessional about him. She does the same thing about visiting him in prison. She means to go and then she has a bad night and turns up late and they don’t let her in. They don’t mess around there [at London’s Pentonville Prison].
Quite often when you are told the quote is from a ‘source’ or ‘family friend’ you’d do well to be quite cynical regarding the truthfulness of it, but the use of the word ‘obsessional’ here confirms beyond any doubt that this is a friend of Amy Winehouse.
The friend went on to explain how Amy is handling the news:
This isn’t Amy’s biggest problem. She’s a smart girl and she’s such a great talent and she’s strong. Nobody can help her at this point until she decides to help herself.
And, once again, no friend of Blake has spoken up to defend him. But all that matters is that Amy is definitely alright.
Phew.