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Post  Scarlet Wed Jun 25, 2008 10:31 am

A JURY retired today to consider its verdict over whether an ex-pub landlord accepted a £200,000 bribe to save Amy Winehouse’s husband from jail for assault.

As the victim, James King, 36, was to be the star witness in the grievous bodily harm trial of Blake Fielder-Civil (Winehouse’s husband) and Michael Brown.

The pair had launched a brutal attack, raining kicks and blows on King outside the east London pub that he ran in June 2006.

But despite suffering serious injuries, including a fractured cheekbone, King had agreed to a huge pay off to withdraw his evidence and flee the country during the trial so the pair would be cleared, London’s Snaresbrook Crown Court has heard.

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Unknown to King, middlemen Anthony Kelly and James Kennedy had gone to a national newspaper making the same claim.

They made secret recordings of meetings for the newspaper, which later went to the police.

King, who claims he was bullied into withdrawing his statement in the GBH case in November 2007, denies conspiring to pervert the course of justice.

Fielder-Civil, 26, of Camden, north London, has already pleaded guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm and perverting the course of justice.

Brown, of Carshalton, Surrey, has admitted the same offences.

Kelly, 25, of Chalk Farm, north London, and Kennedy, 19, of Hatfield, Hertfordshire, have both pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice around November.

They are to be sentenced at a later date.

The jury was sent home for the night and will resume deliberations tomorrow.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1334433.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=amy+winehouse
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