After a year of dedicating her performances to “Blake, incarcerated”, Amy Winehouse can finally drop her widely-loathed catch call after her husband left prison today.

Despite the singer’s regular public laments over the imprisonment of Blake Fielder-Civil, the 25-year-old was not at Edmunds Hill Prison, Suffolk today to see him walk free after 12 months in jail for grievous bodily harm.

The Ministry of Justice declined to confirm the 26-year-old’s departure today, stating that they could not comment on individual prisoners, but it is understood that Fielder-Civil is now checking in to a rehabilitation facility to fulfil the terms of his release.

Fielder-Civil was jailed on remand in late 2007 after admitting he attacked a pub landlord, James King, and was later sentenced to 27 months in prison after a court found him guilty of attempting to pervert the course of justice by offering his victim a £200,000 bribe.

Following his imprisonment, Winehouse, who is famously struggling with drug addiction, has frequently worn a red heart emblazoned with Fielder-Civil’s name in her distinctive beehive and embarrassed audiences with her saccharine dedications.

At this year’s Glastonbury Festival, fans booed the once-lauded soul singer after she spoke of Fielder-Civil's release. She embarrassed the crowd at Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday tribute earlier this year by replacing the chorus of the famous call for justice Free Nelson Mandela, with the words ‘free Blakey, my fella’.

Gordon Brown later revealed that he was left in the awkward position of explaining to Mandela, who spent 27 years in prison in apartheid South Africa, who “Blakey” was and why Winehouse was likening him to the history-making former president.

Winehouse was widely celebrated after she released the Grammy-award-winning album Back To Black in 2006, but the singer has spent the last few years in and out of rehab clinics and police cells.

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