A British parliamentarian was sentenced to 10 weeks in prison on Monday for punching a voter, increasing the expectations that he is expelled from Parliament and an electoral test for the labor party, which is in power.
The party suspended Mike Amsbury after images of security cameras show the politician by striking a man in a man and assaulting him repeatedly as he was on the ground.
Member of Parliament by Runcorn and Helsby, in northwestern England, Amsbury initially said that he felt threatened.
Amsbury then knocked the man on the floor, giving him at least five punches when he was lying, she said.
He then said to the victim, “You won’t threaten your parliamentarian again, are you?”
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Lawyer Richard Derby, who represents Amsbury, said the parliamentarian was sorry and had apologized, asking the court to impose an unpaid work judgment on the politician.
Judge Tan Ikram, however, said that “the drunken behavior not caused at dawn on the streets is very serious to be treated with unpaid working hours.”
Amsbury was sentenced to 10 weeks in prison for common aggression. He declared himself guilty last month and will fulfill 40% of the sentence in custody.
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The politician may be deprived of office if enough voters support a petition asking for a new election to the parliamentary chair, which would press the labor, led by Prime Minister Keir Stmerer.
Amesbury won a labor chair in the party’s party in the July national elections.
