AN ATTACKER has been sentenced by magistrates after assaulting a woman in Hereford.

Kevin Ball appeared before magistrates in Hereford for sentencing in October after entering a guilty plea to one count of assault by beating at an earlier hearing.

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The court heard from prosecutor Eleanor Peart that the 62-year-old had assaulted a woman by beating in an incident in Hereford on May 22.

Ball, of Bankside, Mansell Gamage, was handed an 18-month community order and fined £25 for the offence with magistrates saying that they had taken his guilty plea into account when deciding on the penalty.

He was also ordered to pay prosecution costs of £100 and a £114 victim surcharge, which is used to help fund services supporting victims of crime.