Cheryls brother is in trouble
In yet more shocking news for soon-to-be-divorced singer and X Factor judge Cheryl Cole, her brother has appeared in court charged with the armed robbery of a post office.
Andrew Tweedy (who now goes by Leighton, his father’s surname) is accused of raiding a post office in Longbenton in North Tyneside last week with one other man and a driver. It has been reported that the two men wielded a gun and a machete between them. Magistrates heard that the robbers made off in a getaway car with around £2,000, after discharging a firearm into the ceiling.
Unemployed Tweedy, 30, is now being charged with robbery alongside 22-year-old Christopher Finlinson and 23-year-old Christopher Swindle. Also on trial was Mr Tweedy’s girlfriend and the mother of his child Emma Stanners, 29, who is up for a charge of money laundering. After the hearing, Miss Stammers was released on conditional bail but her other co-conspirators made no bail applications.
According to The Sun, Mr Tweedy has had numerous run-ins with the law, even missing Cheryl’s ill-fated wedding to footballer Ashley Cole in 2006 because he was serving a prison sentence. It is also believed that Mr Tweedy has problems with drink and drug addiction as well as anxiety and depression.
Cheryl Cole, 26, has not yet made a public statement about her brother’s situation, but many newspapers are guessing that she will be in a ‘state of shock’. Cheryl has been in the headlines countless times already over claims that estranged husband Ashley Cole was unfaithful, and this latest story looks set to bring her even more media attention.
omg thats bad