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’ Court on Monday and sent straight to jail.
Hearing Amesbury’s appeal against his sentence, the judge at Chester Crown Court said its length was “spot on” but agreed to suspend it.
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.
Amesbury pleaded guilty in January to assaulting Paul Fellows, 45, following a row in Frodsham, Cheshire, in the early hours of 26 October.
His sentence still leaves the 55-year-old Independent MP – who was suspended by Labour bosses after footage of the assault emerged – at risk of being ousted if his constituents back a recall petition calling for a by-election.
