Winehouse ex-husband facing jail for burglary

Blake Fielder-Civil, 28, looked shocked as a judge refused him bail and remanded him in custody while a pre-sentence report is carried out.

Fielder-Civil and another man, Christopher Sylvester, 29, appeared at Leeds Crown Court.

An earlier hearing heard the pair were arrested in Rawdon, Leeds, on February 28 when a car in which they were travelling was stopped by police.

They admitted possessing an imitation gun and burglary of a dwelling in which electrical items and jewellery worth up to £4,000 was taken; each denied a charge of altering a vehicle licence.

Fielder-Civil, of River Lane, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, and Sylvester, of Roundhay Park, Leeds, who was also remanded in custody, will be sentenced on June 22.

Fielder-Civil held his head in his hands as Judge Kerry Macgill remanded him in custody.

He told the pair: “People who go out and commit burglary with a firearm in the vehicle face a substantial custodial sentence.”

He said Sylvester had an extensive criminal record, while Fielder-Civil was at risk of committing offences while on bail. Earlier, the judge remarked that the fake handgun was a “very impressive looking imitation”.

Joseph Spencer, defending Sylvester, said the pleas were entered for both defendants on the basis that the fake firearm never left the vehicle and was not used in the burglary.

The court was told Fielder-Civil recently became a father, but the child was admitted to intensive care. Fielder-Civil, a former music video assistant, and Winehouse married in 2007 but divorced two years later.