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Bez jailed after refusing to do community service
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 26 August 2010
Former Happy Monday Bez had a not so happy Wednesday yesterday when he was thrown in jail for a month. The jail sentence related to that previously reported assault conviction dished out earlier this month after an altercation between him and the mother of his two year old son back in May.
He would have got away with community service and a fine, but he chose to represent himself in court, which is never a good idea, especially if you’re a space cadet with a vocabulary of just under 60 words.
According to the Press Association, when magistrate Marie Cash passed her initial sentence Bez, real name Mark Berry, said he wouldn’t do it, telling her: “I’m not doing it. Bothered? I’m going to appeal and take this to a real court”. Cash responded by jailing him. Oh, to be a magistrate.
A handcuffed Bez later reportedly shouted “victory is in my grasp” as he was escorted to the cells, possibly because he was having a flashback to the last night of his stint on ‘Celebrity Big Brother’.
