Tom Meighen, the former lead vocalist of rock band Kasabian, was given an 18-month community order and 200 hours of unpaid work after pleading guilty to assaulting his…
Former Kasabian frontman Tom Meighen has pleaded guilty to assaulting his ex-fiancee, a day after he left the band by “mutual consent.”
Meighen,39, appeared at Leicester Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday and admitted to attacking Vikki Ager while drunk on 9 April.
The court heard that Ms Ager hit her head on a hamster cage after being thrown across the room. She was hit in the face, shoved, pushed over repeatedly and threatened with a wooden pallet during the assault.
Video footage showed the singer striking Ms Ager and dragging her by the ankles into their back garden, from which she sustained multiple injuries.
Meighan has been ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work and was given an 18-month community order.
District Judge Nick Watson told the singer: “I could have sent you to prison for this” as he ordered him to carry out unpaid work for what he described as a “sustained attack” that was a “violation of the trust and security that should exist between partners”.
