AN ATTACKER has been handed a conditional discharge after assaulting a man in a Hereford incident.

Charlotte Cotterell entered a guilty plea to one count of assault by beating when she appeared before magistrates in Hereford in May.

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The court heard from Crown Prosecution Service prosecutor Mark Hambling that the 24-year-old, who was represented at the hearing by defence solicitor Emma Thorne, had assaulted a man by beating him in an incident in Belmont, Hereford, on January 20.

Cotterell, of Belmont Road, Hereford, was handed a 12-month conditional discharge, with magistrates saying that they had taken her guilty plea into account when coming to their decision.

She was also ordered to pay prosecution costs of £135 and a £26 victim surcharge, which is used to help fund services supporting victims of crime.