Jade's widower jailed for assault

Apr 14 2009

Jade Goody's widower Jack Tweed has been jailed for 12 weeks for assaulting a taxi driver.

The 21-year-old, of Buckhurst Hill, Essex, showed no emotion as magistrates in Harlow passed an immediate term of imprisonment.

Tweed, whose reality television star wife died from cancer last month, was found guilty of attacking Stephen Wilkins in Epping, Essex, last May following a trial at Epping Magistrates' Court in March.

Magistrates chairwoman Margaret Webb told Tweed the bench had considered his "change in personal circumstances" in passing the sentence.

"We have borne in mind the recent change in your personal circumstances and have reflected this in the length of the sentence, which would otherwise have been 18 weeks," she said.

Before being handcuffed and led to the cells of the court, Tweed was told he would spend half of his sentence behind bars before being freed on licence.

He was ordered to pay prosecution costs of £455 and £200 to Mr Wilkins.