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Winehouse admits theatre assault | Winehouse admits theatre assault |
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Singer Amy Winehouse has admitted assaulting a theatre manager during a Christmas pantomime Cinderella. | |
Winehouse, 26, lashed out at the 27-year-old after disrupting the performance at Milton Keynes Theatre in Buckinghamshire last month. | |
The Back To Black singer pleaded guilty to common assault and disorder at Milton Keynes Magistrates' Court. | |
Winehouse, from Barnet, London, was given a two year conditional discharge and ordered to pay £85 in costs. | |
Winehouse, who was charged under her married name Amy Civil, was also order to pay £100 in compensation to her victim, Richard Pound, the theatre's front-of-house manager. | |
'Alcohol played part' | |
District judge Peter Crabtree told her: "Mr Pound is a person whose job involves interaction with the public. | |
"If he's assaulted he deserves the court's protection. | |
"In this case it's obvious that alcohol played its part." | |
Passing sentence, he added: "It may be harder than a fine because you have now got to stay on the straight and narrow for the next two years." | |
Winehouse sat quietly in the dock wearing a short dark skirt and white shirt, and sporting her signature beehive hairstyle. | |
She was arrested on 23 December after attending Milton Keynes police station voluntarily after the incident on 19 December. | |
The pantomime starred Mickey Rooney and Bobby Davro. |