Amy Winehouse's dad, Mitch, has begged for his daughter to be sectioned as he thinks it's the only way she can get the help she needs.
Amy Winehouse's dad has begged for his daughter to be sectioned.
Mitch Winehouse wants the troubled singer - who on Friday (25.04.08) spent a night in police cells before being cautioned with common assault - forcibly locked up in a mental hospital as he thinks it's the only way she can get help for her life-threatening drug addiction.
He told Britain's News of the World newspaper: "I want her sectioned. The situation is getting out of control. I want her off the street."
He also believes sending just Amy will not be enough.
He 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."
Mitch - who is divorced from Amy's mother - has been in contact with doctors and psychologists in a bid to get her sent to hospital.
He said: "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."
Earlier this week, Amy attacked two men during a drug-fuelled night out.
She hit Moroccan musician Mustapha el Mounmi when he refused to give up his space on a pool table at a London bar.
She is then said to have head-butted a man in the street and accused him of trying to molest her as he attempted to hail cab to get her home safely.
It has also been reported the 24-year-old singer has been cheating on imprisoned husband Blake Fielder-Civil with her manager's assistant Alex Haynes.
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