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KATE’S UNCLE SPARED JAIL FOR KNOCKING OUT HIS WIFE Drunken punch during street row

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SUNBATHING stunna Emily Ratajkowsk­i showed off her model physique as she stripped naked to soak up the sun.

The 26-year-old shared a series of sexy snaps with her 15.7million online followers and didn’t disappoint with her racy reveal.

In one photo she showed of her peachy bum as she posed in a red thong.

But she ditched the tiny pair of knickers for a bare-bottomed shot and paraded her jaw-dropping figure. KATE Middleton’s uncle has avoided prison after he admitted assaulting his wife in a drunken row in which she accused him of taking drugs.

Gary Goldsmith, 52, knocked wife Julie-Ann to the ground outside their home in central London in the early hours of October 13 this year.

He was fined £5,000 and given a community order at Westminste­r Magistrate­s’ Court yesterday, after he pleading guilty to assault at an earlier hearing.

Sentencing him, Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot described him as being a “nasty drunk”, adding: “You were making your way by taxi. Both had been drinking and the taxi driver listened as you argued.

“Your wife accused you of taking drugs and leaving her alone for most of the evening.

“You called her ‘a nothing’ and ‘whore’.”

Goldsmith was sentenced to a 12-month community order with 20 sessions of a rehabilita­tion order.

He was also and ordered to pay a £170 victim surcharge, and £85 towards costs.

Previously prosecutor Kate Shilton told the court Mrs Goldsmith was knocked to the ground after her husband threw what was described by their taxi driver, Daniel Shepherd, as a “left hook”.

Mrs Goldsmith said she had been left “extremely anxious and very stressed, and suffering panic attacks”.

The court heard that she has also lost her confidence, and only leaves the house to walk the dogs and to go to work and food shopping.

Mrs Goldsmith added: “This whole incident has caused me a lot of stress and anxiety and has made me feel very unwell and I do not know how much more hurt and upset I can take.”

Jane Humphryes QC, defending Goldsmith, said that in the lead up to the charity event, her client had been on a “charity diet”.

She said: “The defendant and his wife, it seems to be agreed by both parties, were intoxicate­d at the time.

“The defendant himself had been on a six-week charity HAPPIER TIMES: Gary and Julie-Ann Goldsmith diet with limited food and no alcohol.”

She added that this meant the alcohol may have had more of an effect on him than it would otherwise have done.

Goldsmith is the younger brother of the Duchess of Cambridge’s mother, Carole Middleton, and attended the weddings of both Kate and her sister Pippa.

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