London - The husband of British retro-soul singer Amy Winehouse was released from jail Wednesday and immediately checked into a drug rehabilitation clinic, the Press Association reported. Blake Fielder-Civil, 26, was sentenced for helping to beat up a pub landlord and jailed for 27 months by a court in London three months ago. He had already spent nine months in jail on remand when he was sentenced.
His admission to a rehabilitation clinic was part of the terms of his release, the report said.
"Blake Fielder-Civil has been released on licence. He has to go to rehab. He will be there for at least a couple of months," it quoted an unidentified source as saying.
Winehouse, 24, who has a troubled history of drug and alcohol addiction, was not at her husband's side when he walked out of Edmund's Hill Prison in the south-eastern county of Suffolk.
Fielder-Civil admitted assaulting pub landlord James King in London in June, 2006, and trying to bribe King with money to withdraw his complaints against him.
The court heard that Fielder-Civil was high on alcohol and cocaine when the attack took place, but that Winehouse and her husband were determined to rebuild their lives and "divorce themselves from hard drugs."
