FORMER Labour MP Mike Amesbury has today (Monday) been jailed for 10 weeks following an assault in Frodsham last October.
THE possibility of a by-election has now arisen if 10 per cent of eligible voters sign a petition. Such a by-election would be the first since Labour took power.
Amesbury, who is currently sitting as an Independent MP, after being suspended by Labour, had previously pleaded guilty at Chester Magistrates Court to assaulting Paul Fellows in Frodsham in the early hours of October 26.
CCTV footage showed the MP punching Mr Fellows and shouting “You won’t threaten an MP ever again will you?”
After the earlier hearing, Amesbury, who has been an MP since 2017, said the incident had been “highly regrettable” and he would like to apologise to Mr Fellows and his family.
At today’s sentencing the magistrate said an “immediate custodial sentence was necessary as a punishment and a deterrent.”
Amesbury has also been ordered to pay the victim’s costs.