Mike Amesbury is due to be sentenced at Chester Magistrates’ Court for assault by beating. He pleaded guilty to the attack 45-year-old Paul Fellows last month. In October last year a video emerged showing him punching a man to the ground in his Cheshire constituency. He was suspended from the Labour Party shortly afterwards.

Former Labour MP Mike Amesbury has been jailed for ten weeks after he pleaded guilty to punching a man in his constituency of Runcorn and Helsby. The incident happened in October of last year. Amesbury had the Labour whip withdrawn and has sat as an independent MP since.

A British lawmaker was sentenced to 10 weeks in prison on Monday for punching one of his constituents after a night out, raising the prospect he could be ousted from parliament and trigger an electoral test for the governing Labour Party.