FORMER N-Dubz rapper Dappy has walked free from court after his girlfriend told a judge she “couldn’t ask for a better father and partner”.
The 30-year-old reality television personality whose real name is Costadinos Contostavlos admitted carrying a kitchen knife during the confrontation with Imani Campbell, the mother of his 18-month-old daughter, outside their home in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, on May 10.
Contostavlos, who has an 18-month-old daughter with Miss Campbell,He admitted carrying the knife and pointing it at neighbours before returning inside the home.
But Miss Campbell said her partner was not responsible for the row.
Addressing the judge from the witness box, she said: “I think when a male and a female are in a relationship and an argument occurs, the male may come across as the bad one, and that’s not always the case.”
Asked to describe how Contostavlos supported the family, his partner of three years said: “He takes care of me and my daughter. I couldn’t ask for for a better father for my daughter or a partner for me.”
Judge Nigel Lithman QC, sitting at Luton Crown Court, said the defendant had to “act as a proper role model”.
The singer, earlier told to stop “gesticulating” from the dock by the judge, wept and said “thank you” as He wept as his nine-month jail term was suspended for two years.
He was sporting a black eye having been attacked during his six weeks on remand while waiting for sentencing, defence counsel Thomas Flavin said.
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