Winehouse's husband sentenced to 27 months

A judge has sentenced Amy Winehouse's husband to 27 months in jail for assault and obstructing justice.

Blake Fielder-Civil admitted to beating up pub manager James King in a barroom fight in 2006 and then offering him $400,000 to keep quiet about it.

In a London court Monday, Judge David Radford told Fielder-Civil he had behaved in a "gratuitous, cowardly and disgraceful" way.

Winehousewasn't in court to hear the sentencing.

The 24-year-old singer and 26-year-old Fielder-Civil married in Miami in May 2007.

He was arrested in November and has been in jail ever since. He could be released as early as December, when he has served half his sentence.

Winehouse has become an international star since she released the Grammy winning album, Back to Black, in 2006.

But her music has been overshadowed by reports of drug use, her run-ins with the law and her tempestuous relationship with Fielder-Civil.