JACK Tweed has avoided jail after he admitted punching and kicking a man outside a nightclub.

The 24-year-old widower of reality TV star Jade Goody had pleaded guilty to assaulting 21-year-old builder Tom Grantham outside Deuces bar in Chigwell Road, Woodford Bridge.

Tweed, of Roebuck Lane, Buckhurst Hill, smiled as he left Redbridge Magistrates’ Court in Barkingside today (Tuesday), after being sentenced to 100 hours’ unpaid work.

He was also fined £625 , ordered to attend a 60-day rehabilitation programme and told to attend probation meetings for 18 months.

The court heard that on January 3, the night of the latest assault, Tweed met his 21-year-old brother, Lewis and club manager Mark Wright at the bar.

Ronald Jaffa said in mitigation that Tweed had heard Mr Grantham or one of his friends threaten to firebomb the club.

“This was only one-and-a-half days after the last (arson) attempt,” he added. “He heard the threats and they were about damaging the pub.

“He then punched (Mr Grantham) in the back of the head and was pulled away.

“He aimed a kick, which missed by a large margin and a few seconds later, he aimed another kick, which also missed.”

He said Tweed, who had invested money in the club, feared an arson attack similar to the one that forced it to shut in October.

Referring to the attack and Tweed’s previous convictions for assaulting a youth in 2006 and beating up a taxi driver in 2009, magistrate Susan Mann said: “I think you know yourself that this has got to stop.

“Grow up, stop all this and move on.”

Lewis Tweed, also of Roebuck Lane, had admitted kicking Mr Grantham in the neck and punching him in the jaw at a previous hearing and was today fined a total of £775.

Mark Wright, who also punched Mr Grantham in the incident, was cleared of assault earlier this month, after magistrates decided he acted in self-defence.

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