{"id":23990,"date":"2025-02-27T12:27:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T12:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/jailed-mp-has-prison-sentence-suspended\/"},"modified":"2025-02-27T12:27:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T12:27:55","slug":"jailed-mp-has-prison-sentence-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/jailed-mp-has-prison-sentence-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Jailed MP has prison sentence suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">Cheshire MP Mike Amesbury, who repeatedly punched a constituent during a row in the street, has had his 10-week prison sentence suspended for two years.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">The Runcorn and Helsby MP, who admitted assault, was sentenced at Chester Magistrates&#8217; Court on Monday and sent straight to jail.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">Hearing Amesbury&#8217;s appeal against his sentence, the judge at Chester Crown Court  said its length was &#8220;spot on&#8221; but agreed to suspend it.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">Honorary Recorder of Chester Judge Steven Everett also ordered him to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work, undertake a 12-month alcohol monitoring requirement, go on an anger management course and carry out 20 days of rehabilitation work.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ce8yy0116y8o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheshire MP Mike Amesbury, who repeatedly punched a constituent during a row in the street, has had his 10-week prison sentence suspended for two years. The Runcorn and Helsby MP, who admitted assault, was sentenced at Chester Magistrates&#8217; Court on Monday and sent straight to jail. Hearing Amesbury&#8217;s appeal against his sentence, the judge at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[940,3331,889,888],"class_list":["post-23990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-jailed","tag-prison","tag-sentence","tag-suspended"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23992,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23990\/revisions\/23992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}