Amy Winehouse’s Husband Pleads Guilty to Assault
June 09, 2008
Amy Winehouse’s husband pleaded guilty for assaulting a bar owner and then attempting to cover it up.
Blake Fielder-Civil, 26, stands trial in London on charges of attacking bar owner James King, and then conspiring with him to withdraw as a witness at the trial.
Fielder-Civil and three-co-defendants pleaded guilty last week, but a court order barred reporting the pleas because King is due to face a separate trial. Judge David Radford lifted that restriction Monday.
Singer Amy Winehouse and Fielder-Civil married in Miami in May 2007. He was arrested in November and has been in jail awaiting trial ever since.
Winehouse has become an international star since she released the Grammy-winning album “Back to Black” in 2006. But her music has been overshadowed by reports of her drug use, run-ins with the law and rocky relationship with Fielder-Civil.
Winehouse was at London’s Snaresbrook Crown Court last week for the opening legal arguments in her husband’s trial.
Fielder-Civil faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison for the assault charge.
The defendants are due to be sentenced at a later date.
