Tulisa Contostavlos Assault Appeal Case Lost After Punching Blogger
English singer-songwriter, actress, and television personality, Tulisa Contostavlos hasn't been getting any breaks; surring poor sales on her debut album, The Female Boss. Now, the result of her assault trial has also gone against her.
The former X Factor judge, 26, was found guilty of hitting Savvas Morgan at the V Festival in Chelmsford, Essex, in August 2013.
According to BBC News, A £3,020 fine was ordered by Stratford Magistrates' Court last July, and a judge upheld the conviction in her appeal, stating that Contostavlos had experienced "a lack of self-control" when she struck Mr Morgan.
But her sentence was changed so she did not have to pay £100 compensation to Mr Morgan, and a fine of £200 was changed to a conditional discharge. Contostavlos will though, have to pay an additional £1,500 in appeal costs.
At Snaresbrook Crown Court, Judge David Radford said Contostavlos accepted she became verbally aggressive.
"We find she was not calm, this was a lack of self-control - the reasons, we understand - and for a brief moment, we find that she did strike Mr Morgan, before very speedily the incident was brought to an end," Radford said.
During her trial, Contostavlos claimed Mr Morgan had a "strange obsession" with her and conducted a "vendetta" against her after a confrontation in a nightclub.
Ironically, in the same week as her conviction for assault, a trial involving Contostavlos collapsed when a judge at Southwark Crown Court said there were "strong grounds" to believe undercover reporter Mazher Mahmood had given false statements on the witness stand.