Amy Winehouse’s Dad wants Amy’s next pad to have rubber walls

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THE distraught father of junkie singer Amy Winehouse has revealed he wants her forcibly locked up in a mental hospital for her own good.

Mitch Winehouse is convinced it is the only way to save his daughter from killing herself with drugs.

Phil Taylor writes In an exclusive interview with the News of the World, Mitch said that:

“I want her sectioned. The situation is getting out of control. I want her off the street.”

Dismissing another stint in rehab, Mitch said: “I don’t think being somewhere for six weeks is going to cure her problems.

“I think it needs far more radical measures. We will take the bull by the horns and deal with it.”

Taxi driver Mitch is cutting short a holiday in Tenerife to fly home for a Council of War with the 24-year-old singer’s team, family and medical professionals tomorrow.

Mitch, 57, revealed: “I’ve been on the phone to Amy’s manager in Los Angeles and he’s starting things rolling. They are going to be speaking to doctors, psychologists and everything else.

“I want Amy to be somewhere where she will be safe and where no harm can come to her.

“Obviously as her dad I will try and do what’s best for her.

“Unfortunately, what I think is best for Amy and what she thinks is best for her are two different things.

“And it might be that other parties might need to be involved.

“You need all four—the psychologists, the doctor, the local health authority and the next of kin—all to decide that somebody is sectionable.

“Now is the time to exert whatever pressure we have to try to do it.

“I’ve told them she is a danger to herself. There is evidence of self-harming and she’s a danger to other people because she’s attacked someone.”

 

Amy left Holborn police station in central London yesterday morning after spending a night in cells before being cautioned for common assault.

Her latest troubles began on Tuesday night after she arrived at a pub in Camden, north London, with pals including Babyshambles star Mik Whitnall following a booze-up at her flat nearby. Once inside she is said to have hit Moroccan musician Mustapha el Mounmi after he refused to give way to her at the pool table.

Mustapha, 27, had a bruised eye and swollen lip. He said: “I feel so angry. She smashed my face hard.”

After playing pool, Amy returned to her flat but emerged to visit the nearby Bar Tok at 2am on Wednesday. The frail-looking star left at 2.45am and allegedly head-butted a good samaritan trying to hail her a cab because she thought he was trying to molest her.

Breaking his silence about her arrest, sad Mitch sighed:

“I have spoken to her about that and she told me the situation got completely out of hand. Clearly this can’t continue.”

The trouble did not stop there. At the end of the evening wild-eyed Amy promised a cabbie £40 to take her home.

She persuaded him to stop on the way so she could buy newspapers but staggered into a lamp-post, nearly smashing her head.

When she got home she angered the driver by paying only £20.

And on Friday morning Amy celebrated a report that she was worth £10million by getting thrown out of a London bar for allegedly taking drugs in the lavatory.

Shaken Mitch went on:

“One of the reasons I came to Tenerife was to get away from it all.

“If I was in England, I’d be around there and try to impress upon her the foolishness of her ways.

“During the week I nearly came home from Tenerife because she phoned me and said ‘I really miss you’ and started crying.

I got my sister to go and see her. She has clearly been through a very traumatic week.

“I don’t feel Amy is beyond help. But unless she wants it, you can’t force her to do anything against her will.”