AN ATTACKER has been handed a conditional discharge after assaulting a woman in a Hereford incident.
Terry Johnson entered a guilty plea to one count of assault by beating when he appeared before magistrates in Hereford in March after previously entering a not guilty plea.
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The court heard from the prosecutor that the 30-year-old, who was represented at the hearing by defence solicitor Emma Thorne, had assaulted a woman by beating her in an incident in Hereford on August 14 last year.
Johnson, of Burton Crescent in Hereford, was handed a six-month conditional discharge for the offence, with magistrates saying they had taken his guilty plea into account when making their decision on an appropriate penalty.
He was also ordered to pay costs of £135 to the Crown Prosecution Service and a £26 victim surcharge, which is used to help fund services supporting victims of crime.
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