Eric Joyce told to pay £3,000 fine for assault in House of Commons bar Eric Joyce outside Westminster magistrates court, where he was sentenced after admitting assault in a Commons bar. Eric Joyce has been ordered by magistrates to pay a total of £4,400 and given a weekend curfew after pleading guilty to assaulting four people in a House of Commons bar last month. Westminster magistrates court fined the MP £3,000, ordered him to pay £1,400 in compensation, gave him a 12-month community order, banned him from entering any bar, pub or restaurant for three months and imposed with a curfew order from Friday to Sunday. He admitted four counts of assault. Speaking outside court, Joyce apologised for his behaviour and said he was lucky to avoid prison, but said he did not intend to stand down as an MP before the next election. He was suspended from the Labour party following the fight in a House of Commons bar on 22 February in which a Conservative MP was headbutted and punched. The court heard he told police: "You can't touch me, I'm an MP." The Labour MP, who admitted four counts of assault, expressed his "shame and embarrassment," said Jeremy Dein QC, defending. "He is unreservedly apologetic for what occurred on the night in question," Dein said. Joyce - who accepted to police he was "hammered" - expressed "shame and embarrassment for himself and his office and all who he represents," Dein said. And he accepted the fact that he was drinking was not an excuse "for the dreadful scenario that unfolded," the barrister added. Zoe Martin, prosecuting, said Joyce launched into a frenzied attack after shouting that the Strangers' bar "was full of fucking Tories." Having attacked two MPs and two councillors he then wrote in a police officer's notebook: "We are a Tory nation, that cannot be forever ... good cops unite." Witnesses to the brawl said "he was very angry, drunk, angrier than anyone," Martin said. One onlooker said his "eyes looked like nobody was home" while another said his "eyes looked dead." Violence flared after Joyce started singing "very loudly," drinkers said. After the incident in the Commons, Joyce also admitted to a relationship with a 17-year-old girl who had volunteered at his campaign office during the 2010 general election.