Jade Goody's on-off boyfriend Jack Tweed has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for attacking a 16-year-old boy.
The 21-year-old, who accompanied his girlfriend into the Celebrity Big Brother house in 2007, attended Chelmsford Crown Court yesterday to receive his sentence.
Jack and his friend James Mattock were accused of instigating a fight with Daniel Steele (now 18) in 2006.
They were accused of hitting the teenager repeatedly with golf clubs and Steele had to be taken to Harlow Hospital after the incident and treated for extensive bruising across his body including his head and back.
At the hearing, Andre de Moller, representing Jack, tried to use the fact that his girlfriend Jade is currently battling cancer as a way to get a more lenient sentence.
He told the court that Jade has a "long road ahead" and that she "needs her man" to help her.
"It was a frightening scene and a traumatic experience," the judge said.
"You went, it seems to me, with one purpose - to attack and to have a fight. Hitting someone about the head with a weapon is an extremely dangerous thing to do."
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