This Labour MP has been jailed for acting like a thug – and it seems clear he deserved the 10-week sentence.
Mike Amesbury admitted punching a man to the ground in an incident in his Runcorn and Helsby constituency – but it went a bit further than that.
He assaulted 45-year-old Paul Fellows in Frodsham, Cheshire, on October 26, 2024, after a confrontation of some kind; we have not been informed of its exact nature.
As Deputy Chief Magistrate Tan Ikram of Chest Magistrates Court said, Amesbury’s actions were the result of a “anger and loss of emotional control”.
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He said: “I note that you, Mr Amesbury, continued to punch Mr Fellows when he was on the ground and continued to shout at Mr Fellows. I consider this more culpable.
“You continued to attack when he was on the ground and it may have continued further had a bystander not intervened.
“You continued to rant; your position ought to be as a role model to others.”
He said he accepted the incident was one incident “in an otherwise unblemished career”.
But he was of “the view that unprovoked drunken behaviour is too serious to be dealt with [by] unpaid work”.
Mr Ikram said he had also considered how the MP was “unlikely to re-offend”.
But he said: “You were only stopped from going further by members of the public.”
The jail sentence means voters in Amesbury’s constituency can remove him from his seat with a recall petition. This can be called if a sitting MP is convicted of an offence that leads to jail time.
More than 10 per cent of voters in Runcorn and Helsby must sign the petition for a by-election to be triggered.
And that’s all very well. Amesbury committed the crime, and it comes with penalties.
But I have a question.
The incident reminds me of times when my Dad was just a boy, back in the 1930s or maybe the 1940s; he got into the occasional fight back in those days.
The mother of whichever boy he’d pummelled would come to my paternal grandmother’s door and reel out her complaint of violence against her own little cherub.
And she (being from the West Country) would nod and say, “Ah. And what did thy boy do?”
Without having any sympathy at all for Amesbury, I’d like to know what Mr Fellows said to him that prompted him to let his fists fly.
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This Labour MP has been jailed for acting like a thug
This Labour MP has been jailed for acting like a thug – and it seems clear he deserved the 10-week sentence.
Mike Amesbury admitted punching a man to the ground in an incident in his Runcorn and Helsby constituency – but it went a bit further than that.
He assaulted 45-year-old Paul Fellows in Frodsham, Cheshire, on October 26, 2024, after a confrontation of some kind; we have not been informed of its exact nature.
As Deputy Chief Magistrate Tan Ikram of Chest Magistrates Court said, Amesbury’s actions were the result of a “anger and loss of emotional control”.
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He said: “I note that you, Mr Amesbury, continued to punch Mr Fellows when he was on the ground and continued to shout at Mr Fellows. I consider this more culpable.
“You continued to attack when he was on the ground and it may have continued further had a bystander not intervened.
“You continued to rant; your position ought to be as a role model to others.”
He said he accepted the incident was one incident “in an otherwise unblemished career”.
But he was of “the view that unprovoked drunken behaviour is too serious to be dealt with [by] unpaid work”.
Mr Ikram said he had also considered how the MP was “unlikely to re-offend”.
But he said: “You were only stopped from going further by members of the public.”
The jail sentence means voters in Amesbury’s constituency can remove him from his seat with a recall petition. This can be called if a sitting MP is convicted of an offence that leads to jail time.
More than 10 per cent of voters in Runcorn and Helsby must sign the petition for a by-election to be triggered.
And that’s all very well. Amesbury committed the crime, and it comes with penalties.
But I have a question.
The incident reminds me of times when my Dad was just a boy, back in the 1930s or maybe the 1940s; he got into the occasional fight back in those days.
The mother of whichever boy he’d pummelled would come to my paternal grandmother’s door and reel out her complaint of violence against her own little cherub.
And she (being from the West Country) would nod and say, “Ah. And what did thy boy do?”
Without having any sympathy at all for Amesbury, I’d like to know what Mr Fellows said to him that prompted him to let his fists fly.
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