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Happy Mondays’ Bez gets jailed after court outburst
Dancer rants at magistrates after being given community order for trying to strangle his ex-girlfriend
The former Happy Mondays dancer and percussionist Bez has been sentenced to four weeks’ jail after a dramatic outburst at Manchester magistrates court.
Bez, real name Mark Berry, had been sentenced to do community service for attempting to strangle Monica Ward (above with Bez), his ex-girlfriend and mother of his two-year-old son, during a row over money.
But he refused to accept accept the community order, instead announcing: "I'm not doing it. Bothered. I'm going to appeal and take this to a real court."
Bez, who won Celebrity Big Brother in 2005, has long operated on the edges of the law. One urban myth has it that he imported the first shipment of Ecstasy into Manchester.
After being told he was going to jail he shouted "Victory is in my grasp" as he was handcuffed and led away. ·
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Just so we understand this, someone with a joke name who won Celebrity Big Brother in 2005. That's five years ago. And USED to be a dancer with what I presume is a band whose fame along with it's ex dancer's sadly passed me by, was in court because he'd tried to strangle his girlfriend.
Well we know what he used to do. Really vital jobs both of them. But what does he do now? How does he put food on the table and support his child?
It says everything about the Celebrity Culture that this country is obsessed with, that a man strangling a woman only gets a community order, presumably because of his celebrity status. If Wayne from the council estate had done it his feet wouldn't have touched the ground.
So it's ok to strangle the mother of your child but if you get cheeky to the magistrate you go to prison. I wonder how much of the four weeks he'll do before before a judge decides he was harshly treated. In the meantime the rest of us who actually do something worthwhile will carry on working, paying our taxes to pay for those who just don't want to work, bless them.
I propose a new programme, 'Celebrity Waste Of Space' We invite as many of these pointless fame obsessed inadequates as possible. We take them to a remote Scottish island (sorry Scotland) and when they land, we break the news that there are no cameras, no cash prize and nobody will be watching their brattish boring behaviour. I think we're onto a winner here