A MAN has been handed a community order with unpaid work after assaulting a woman in Hereford.
Keith Baverstock entered a guilty plea to one count of assaulting a person thereby occasioning them actual bodily harm when he appeared before magistrates on October 8.
Hereford Magistrates’ Court heard from prosecutor Lauren Millichip that the 60-year-old had attacked a woman on November 12 last year.
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This is an offence under section 47 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861.
The assault took place in Hereford.
Baverstock, of Indigo Close, Overstone, Northampton, was handed a two-year community order with 80 hours of unpaid work to be completed within one year. He must also attend up to 30 days of rehabilitation activities.
He must pay court costs of £85 and a victim surcharge of £114, with magistrates imposing a collection order to ensure this is paid by the defendant in full by November 5.
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