JACK TWEED, the widower of Jade Goody, has been sent down for 12 weeks for assaulting a taxi driver.
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“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,” said magistrate Margaret Webb at Harlow Magistrates’ Court, in reference to Goody’s death.
Tweed, 21, will only have to serve six weeks of the sentence inside, with the other six weeks being spent on licence, a kind of parole.
Tweed’s legal team argued that their man had matured a lot over the year since he committed the offence, in which cabbie Stephen Wilkins was held in a head lock and threatened with a stabbing.
It is the second time Tweed has been done for assault. In September 2008, he was sentenced to 18 months in prison for the first – an attack with a golf club on a 16-year-old – before being released on licence in January 2009.
