[MrGaryy]

British reality TV star Jade Goody's live-in boyfriend has been jailed for 18 months for attacking a teenager with a golf club, two weeks after she was diagnosed with life-threatening cervical cancer while participating in the Indian version of the 'Big Brother' show.

27-year-old Goody's boyfriend Jack Tweed requested for a suspended sentence so that he could take care of her, but was given 18 months in prison by the Chelmsford Crown Court for attacking a 16-year-old boy, 'The Times' reported.

The court heard how Tweed, 21, planned the December 2006 attack with a golf club on Daniel Steele along with his friend James Mattock. Tweed was living at Goody's Ongar home at the time of the attack on the boy, now 18, who was left with bruising to his head, face and chest, the report said.

Tweed pleaded not guilty and denied any knowledge of the assault at his trial in July, but yesterday his lawyer said, in mitigation, that his client had lost his temper after being the victim of "sustained abuse" by local youths.

"His motives were to teach a young person, who had been a ringleader in the group of people, which was constantly outside his house - to teach that young person a lesson," Andre de Moller was quoted as saying by the paper.

Tweed, who had previously split up with Goody, moved back into her home after she was diagnosed with cervical cancer.

"It is plain, your honour, that this lady has a long road ahead of pain and distress. She is the mother of two young children," de Moller said and asked the judge to suspend any prison sentence because of those "exceptional circumstances".

But the judge, Recorder Mark Lucraft QC, said both Tweed and Mattock would spend nine months in prison before being released on licence. "Hitting someone about the head with a weapon is an extremely dangerous thing to do", he said, though
he accepted there had been "some goading and provocation".

Source, Daily New & Analysis

[andyman]

He must be worth a few mars bars.