Jade Goody will spend her wedding night with soon-to-be-husband Jack Tweed – after Justice Secretary Jack Straw stepped in to lift his curfew.
Goody – who was recently told her cervical cancer had spread throughout her body and she had just months left to live – was left heartbroken yesterday when she learned a prison governor had rejected a plea to waive Jack’s curfew.
The rejected application to waive the bail conditions had been made to the governor of Wayland prison in Norfolk.
Jack was sent to Wayland for assaulting a 16-year-old boy with a golf club.
But 21-year-old Tweed’s bail conditions have been changed to allow him to remain at the reception venue until 3pm the following day.
Under the original terms, Tweed was to return to his mother’s home by 7pm immediately after the ceremony.
The Justice Secretary said, “It is crucial that offenders are treated equally within the rules regardless of the publicity surrounding their case but I was satisfied that it was reasonable to allow this.”
A spokesman added, ‘Jack has enormous sympathy for Jade Goody and her family at this time. She is showing extraordinary courage and his thoughts are with her and her family.’
Max Clifford, the couple’s publicist, said: “It will be the dream finish to her dream day, and it makes so much difference.
“Our heartfelt thanks from Jade and from Jack for allowing him to stay the evening in these very special circumstances.”
Goody and Tweed are to marry this coming Sunday.
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