Labour MP released from jail after three days.

 

Mike Amesbury

Mike Amesbury, the Runcorn and Helsby MP, has had his 10-week prison sentence for assault suspended on appeal after spending just three days in prison. Judge Steven Everett, sitting with two magistrates at Chester Crown Court said that while the length of sentence had been "spot on", it should be suspended for two years. Amesbury was ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work and to undertake an anger management course as well as an alcohol monitoring programme. The 55-year-old MP, had pleaded guilty at an earlier court hearing to assaulting a constituent in Frodsham last October.

Last August, Judge Everett, sent a 53-year-old female carer to prison for a post that she had written on Facebook. Julie Sweeney, from Church Lawton, Cheshire, who the Judge described as a "keyboard warrior", was jailed for 15-months after she pleaded guilty to sending a communication to convey a threat of death or serious harm. Following the riots that had erupted in Southport, after the stabbings of young children, she had called for a Mosque to be burnt down with all the adults in it. Sweeney, who had "never troubled the courts before", had been a carer for her husband since 2015.