A UK MP imprisoned for assault earlier this week has won an appeal against his sentence.
Mike Amesbury, 55, was jailed for 10 weeks for a late-night altercation with a man who complained to him about a bridge closure.
The sentence was imposed at Chester Magistrates' Court on Monday.
However, Chester Magistrates' Court - a higher court - suspended the prison term for two years.
This means that Amesbury will only serve further time in custody if he reoffends within the two-year period.
He will also have to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work, undergo alcohol monitoring and attend an anger management course.
Amesbury was suspended by the Labour Party after a video clip of the assault last October was published on the Mail Online news website.
He has since sat in parliament as an independent.
Labour leader and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer described the footage as "shocking" and said his party had moved "very swiftly" to suspend the MP for Runcorn and Helsby in Cheshire.
Amesbury was led from a prison van in handcuffs as he arrived for the appeal hearing.
Last month, he admitted assaulting 45-year-old Paul Fellows in Frodsham, a town southeast of Liverpool, in the early hours of 26 October.
Because the sentence was for less than 12 months, Amesbury did not automatically lose his seat in the House of Commons.
But this could happen if his constituents back a petition calling for a by-election.
