Tweed has had several legal issues. These include an 18-month prison sentence in September 2008 for assault occasioning actual bodily harm for attacking a 16-year-old boy with a golf club in December 2006. In March 2009, he was found guilty of common assault for attacking a taxi driver in May 2008. He was charged with the rape of a 19-year-old woman. In January 2011 he punched a man, for which he was convicted of common assault in August 2011.