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Tulisa Contostavlos loses assault conviction appeal
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Tulisa Contostavlos has lost her appeal against an assault conviction.
In July last year, the 26-year-old 'Living Without You' singer was found guilty of hitting celebrity blogger Savvas Morgan at V Festival in Chelmsford in August 2013.
She launched an appeal against the conviction, and had said during the hearing at Snaresbrook Crown Court that Morgan had a "strange obsession" with her.
However, today (January 14) judge David Radford told the court: "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."
Judge Radford found that a security guard who saw the incident was "undoubtedly independent", also noting that Contostavlos had accepted she became verbally aggressive during the altercation.
Contostavlos was fined £200 and ordered to pay a £20 victim surcharge, £100 compensation and £2,700 costs at the end of the original trial.
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