A HEREFORDSHIRE teenager has pleaded guilty to attacking a man by beating.

Corey Jenkins entered his plea to a charge of assault by beating when he appeared before magistrates in Hereford earlier this month.

The court heard from prosecuting solicitor Paul John the 19-year-old assaulted another man by beating him in Hereford on December 8 last year.

Assault by beating is an offence under section 39 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988.

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Represented in court by defence solicitor Marilena Divitantonio of GC Law, Jenkins was let off with a conditional discharge of 12 months.

This means that he will not be sentenced for the offence unless he were to re-offend within the next 12 months. If that were the case, he would be sentenced for this offence as well as any new offence.

Jenkins, of Three Crosses Road, Ross-on-Wye, was told to pay prosecution costs of £200 as well as a victim surcharge of £26.