A Carshalton man has been jailed for almost three years for his part in a fight in which he and the husband of singer Amy Winehouse bashed a pub landlord then tried to cover it up.

Michael Brown, of Durand Close, Carshalton, was today jailed for a total of 33 months after admitting inflicting grievous bodily harm and perverting the course of justice.

The former Brit School student's husband, music video assistant Blake Fielder-Civil, admitted the same charges and was jailed for a total of 27 months.

The pair were jailed for their part in beating a pub landlord and trying to bribe him with £200,000 not to testify.

Fielder-Civil, 26, insisted through his barrister that he only became involved in the tangled plot while 'befuddled' by drugs.

There was no sign of the 24-year-old award winning songwriter as her husband appeared in Snaresbrook Crown Court today.

Defence barrister Jeremy Dein QC said Fielder-Civil has been battling his habit and wants to be a role model for Winehouse - to whom he is "very much committed".

Fielder-Civil and his friend Brown, 40, attacked 36-year-old James King outside the Macbeth pub in Hoxton, east London following a row over a woman.

Pub landlord King, who was kicked by Fielder-Civil as he lay on the ground, needed surgery to rebuild a broken cheekbone.

King was earlier cleared of involvement in the bribery plot after insisting he was bullied into retracting his statement.

Former music video assistant Fielder-Civil, Brown, and two middlemen Anthony Kelly, 26, and 20-year-old James Kennedy admitted their roles in the conspiracy.

The plan was exposed after Kelly and Kennedy tried to sell the story to the media with CCTV images of the attack.

Plot members claimed the drug addicted singer was the financier, but prosecutors said there was no evidence she knew about the plan.

King had thrown Fielder-Civil's friend Brown out the pub fearing there would be trouble with his ex-girlfriend Neeley Moore, who was about to turn up at the pub.

Brown took his revenge as he closed up the pub at around midnight, on June 20, 2006, CCTV footage from outside the pub shows Brown throwing a punch and Fielder-Civil aiming kicks at the victim.

King was so badly beaten he needed surgery to reconstruct his face.

Kennedy, of The Holdings, Hatfield, and Kelly, of Constable House, Chalk Farm, both admitted perverting the course of justice.

Nottingham-born King, of The White House, Risley Hall, Risley, Derbyshire, denied conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

With time already served, Fielder-Civil could be released in time for Christmas.

Anthony Kelly was jailed for 20 months while James Kennedy walked free after he was sentenced to 40 weeks jail suspended for 12 months and ordered to perform 120 hours unpaid work.

Judge Radford told Brown and Fielder-Civil he accepted there was no preconceived plan to attack King, but added: "Even so, that attack, though short-lived, was vicious and one-sided, involving as it did Mr King being punched and kicked.

"Your role Mr Brown was the leading role, according to the pre-sentence report upon you from the Probation Service, motivated by jealousy for Mr King's friendship with an ex girlfriend of yours.

"I read that you Mr Fielder-Civil were affected by drink and cocaine and that in that drunken and drugged state took part in this attack out of a mistaken sense of loyalty to your friend Mr Brown.

"Mr Brown you behaved in a gratuitous, cowardly and disgraceful way."

Speaking outside court Kate Anderson, Fielder-Civil's solicitor, said they were considering appealing the sentence.

She said: "In light of the extreme efforts Mr Fielder-Civil has made in custody, despite the pressures he has been under, we are disappointed with the length of the sentence.

"We are giving serious consideration to an appeal."