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.

Aside from the chronic signs of drug addiction, self-harm and mental instability, Amy Winehouse has probably been most worried about perverting the course of justice lately.

But now she needs to worry no more, because the police have officially decided to take no further action with Amy Winehouse over her supposed role in her husband's GBH/ perverting the course of justice trial.

Finally Amy Winehouse can relax – and this means she can now hoof down as much crack as she likes without fear of being sent to jail and experiencing any upsetting periods of cold turkey in there. That Amy Winehouse, eh? What a bloody hero.

Amy Winehouse's husband Blake Fielder-Civil is in jail at the moment. That might come as a bit of a shock to you, we know, because news of his incarceration has been strictly limited to every single word in every single newspaper published for the last six months and the way that Amy Winehouse can't even get through a solitary verse of any of her songs without shouting "My Blakey!" like an overzealous On The Buses fan with a funny haircut.

Blake Fielder-Civil is in jail over claims that he beat up a pub landlord so badly that the landlord needed a metal place inserted into his face and then offered him £200,000 to leave the country and change his story. But wait! Blake Fielder-Civil? £200,000? Blake Civil-Fielder?

It doesn't take a genius to look at Blake Civil-Fielder, all tatty hat and his sallow unwashed skin, and work out that he probably doesn't have £200,000. His wife, though, is Amy Winehouse – the five-time Grammy-winning performer of the biggest-selling album of last year. Maybe – just maybe – Blake got that justice-perverting money from Amy.

That's what the Metropolitan Police must have thought when it arrested Amy Winehouse on suspicion of perverting the course of justice a week before Christmas. But, although she was partly cleared of the charge last month, Amy Winehouse has now been completely cleared, as BBC News reports:

Amy Winehouse faces no further action in connection with her husband's alleged attempt to pervert the course of justice, police have said… The singer was questioned by police in December before being released on police bail to return for further questioning at a later date. But on Friday Scotland Yard confirmed that she was no longer required to do so. A spokesman for the singer said: "Amy is pleased to be discounted from the investigation and thanks the police for their professionalism in their dealings with her."

That'll no doubt be a weight off Amy Winehouse's mind – now all she has to deal with is her debilitating drug habit, continuing alleged issues with self-harm, inability to perform in public without sounding like a cat in a mincer and every single other aspect of her life whatsoever and she'll be completely back to normal.

But she's not out of the woods yet. Blake Fielder Civil today pleaded not guilty to his charges and will remain in custody until at least April. And that means Amy Winehouse will have to free up some time in her schedule to turn up to court hammered again. It's just a bit of a niggle, logistically.

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Amy Winehouse may be many things – like the world's most disturbing semi-professional Marge Simpson impersonator, to name but one – but it looks as if she isn't a perverter of the justice.

Although Amy Winehouse was arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice last month – in connection with her husband's alleged plan to buy the silence of a barman who he attacked – it now looks like all charges against her will be dropped. That's wonderful news for Amy Winehouse, who can now put this horrible incident behind her and get on with some of her much-missed hobbies – for instance, Amy sorely needs to catch up on her wandering around London in her bra at midnight looking as if she doesn't really understand what's going on. Maybe she'll even renew her subscription to Wandering Around London In Your Bra At Midnight Looking As If You Don't Really Understand What's Going On magazine.

Amy Winehouse's last few months have been relentlessly gloomy, what with all the drug overdoses and the cancelled concerts and the booing crowds and the spaghetti madness and her husband getting arrested for apparently smashing up a barman's face until he needed metal plates inserted into his face and then possibly trying to pay him to leave the country, so it's about time that she received a rare chink of sunlight.

And here it is – Amy Winehouse probably isn't going to be arrested for perverting the course of justice. It was on the cards for a while, though – in December Amy Winehouse was arrested on suspicion of it thanks to the way that her husband Blake Fielder-Civil apparently offered the barman £200,000 to go away even though he generally looks so penniless that we're frankly stunned that he doesn't tit about in a striped Tesco Value trilby hat.

But now it seems as though Amy Winehouse is in the clear because police can't find anything suggesting she was in on Blake's screwy plot. According to a source in the Crown Prosecution Service:

"The evidence-building is purely circumstantial at this stage and is not enough to charge Amy with anything. If she did give money to her husband, this is not a criminal offence and is not enough to prove she was involved in a conspiracy. Unless new evidence comes to light it is likely the case against her will be dropped."

It's true – even if Amy Winehouse did give Blake £200,000 it could have been for anything, not just paying for a metal-faced man's extended holiday. Well maybe not anything – looking at Blake we're guessing that Amy didn't give him the money so he could buy some soap, or a wardrobe that doesn't look like Pete Doherty's shit-stained hand-me-downs, or some common sense, or the services of a decent dentist, or any books more advanced than The Very Hungry Caterpillar. But stuff other than that, sure.

Still, at least Amy Winehouse is in the clear now, and we couldn't be happier for her – at least this means we get to watch her unsettlingly tragic decline into drug-smashed madness in full view without a silly little thing like prison getting in the way. Really, this isn't just a victory for Amy Winehouse, it's a victory for everyone who likes seeing disturbed young women freely staggering around covered in blood. And, face it, that's everyone.

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