Former cage fighter Alex Reid has been jailed for eight weeks for contempt of court, after he lied in a witness statement for a compensation claim following a car crash.
Reid, 45, was trying to claim £20,000 in compensation from a car insurance firm following a collision between his Audi A6 and a Seat Leon.
The collision took place in January 2018 and in part of the claim that followed, Reid said he did not know a motorbike rider called Darren Summers, who it was believed had witnessed the crash.
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However, the other motorist's insurers, Axa Insurance UK, discovered an article on a local news website about an appearance Reid had made at a mixed martial arts (MMA) masterclass in Ipswich in September 2017.
The article stated that Mr Summers, a former European and world kickboxing champion, had organised the event for charity - meaning that Reid did in fact know him.
According to The Sun, it's believed that the Celebrity Big Brother winner had also trained Summers for his first fight.
Reid, who is Katie Price's ex-husband, admitted contempt of court when Axa initiated High Court committal proceedings against him in January this year.
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Sentencing him to eight weeks in prison, Mrs Justice Eady said she took into account the mitigation put forward on his behalf, including that his fiancée is six months pregnant and he has recently been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome.
However, the judge said that only a custodial term would reflect the serious nature of his dishonesty, adding that it was a 'deliberate falsehood in which the defendant stood to make significant financial gain'.
Judge Eady said he will serve half of his sentence in prison and the remaining half on licence following his release.
Last month, Reid spoke openly about his Asperger's Syndrome as he explained it had made him reconsider much of his life, after spending years being bullied.
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He told The Mirror that he had always felt different to others and had been treated poorly his whole life as a result.
He explained: "It's a relief in many ways but it's a bit unnerving because it's coming to terms with new things, but it also explains so much."
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