Amy Winehouse’s Husband’s Arrest Finally Causes British Journalists’ Heads To Explode With Glee

Amy Winehouse finally gets that long-awaited visa to tour the U.S., and then her apartment is raided by cheery British bobbies as “part of an ongoing investigation” into charges of “perverting the course of justice.” Could that “perversion” have anything to do with her husband being arrested for (allegedly) engaging in a “£200,000 plot to fix a trial”? Perhaps!

Earlier detectives had been tipped off by the Mirror to an astonishing alleged plot to halt a trial in which [Winehouse’s husband Blake] Fielder-Civil and pal Michael Brown are accused of assaulting a barman causing GBH with intent. It is claimed £200,000 would have been paid to alleged victim James King to withdraw his police statement.

He would also be flown out of the country before the hearing in the hope that the case against Fielder-Civil, 25, and Brown – due on on Monday – would eventually collapse.

We’re gonna assume “GBH” means “great bodily harm” and not “causing mohawks and liberty spikes with intent.” As this news is being reported in The Mirror, one of Britain’s delightfully hysterical tabloids, the only thing we can assume is true is that “Fielder-Civil is due in Snaresbrook crown court, East London, with Brown on Monday.” But those folks at the Mirror sure do paint a vivid picture:

As eight plain-clothed officers manacled Fielder-Civil and led him off to cells, the tearful jazz diva begged hysterically: “I want to go with him.” Then she stood on tiptoe, threw her arms around his neck, hugged and kissed him and repeatedly said: “Baby, I love you. Baby, I’ll be fine.” Finally, weeping and hyperventilating Amy, 24, ran out of the flat and shouted to Fielder-Civil in the courtyard below: “I’ll be fine. Baby, I love.” Fielder-Civil managed to shout back “I love you” before being bundled into an unmarked people carrier.

Now that’s tabloiding!

Amy Winehouse’s Flat Raided [Yahoo] Amy Winehouse’s Husband Cuffed And Off To Cells [The Mirror]