A London judge sentenced singer Amy Winehouse's husband yesterday to 27 months in jail for assault and obstructing justice.
Blake Fielder-Civil has admitted beating up pub manager James King in a barroom fight in 2006 and then offering him $411,734 to keep quiet about it.
Judge David Radford told Fielder-Civil he had behaved in a "gratuitous, cowardly and disgraceful" way. Winehouse was not in court.
Winehouse, 24, and Fielder-Civil, 26, married in Miami in May 2007. He was arrested in November and has been in jail ever since.
Winehouse has become an international star since she released the Grammy-winning album Back to Black in 2006. But her music has been overshadowed by reports of drug use, run-ins with the law and her tempestuous relationship with Fielder-Civil.