Mike Amesbury has been jailed for 10 weeks for punching a man after a row in the street.The Runcorn and Helsby MP, who has been sitting as an Independent since he was suspended by the party after his arrest in October last year, dropped his head and swallowed as the sentence was passed at Chester Magistrates' Court on Monday, before he was taken to the cells by two dock officers.

Mike Amesbury has been jailed for 10 weeks for punching a man after a row in the street.The Runcorn and Helsby MP, who has been sitting as an Independent since he was suspended by the party after his arrest in October last year, dropped his head and swallowed as the sentence was passed at Chester Magistrates' Court on Monday, before he was taken to the cells by two dock officers.