A VANDAL has been ordered to pay £1,500 after causing damage to a van.

Emma Beavan entered guilty pleas to one count of criminal damage to property valued under £5,000 and two counts of assault by beating when she appeared before magistrates in Hereford last month.

The court heard from the Crown Prosecution Service solicitor Paul John that the 43-year-old had intentionally or recklessly damaged a Vauxhall Vivaro van belonging to someone else, without any lawful excuse, on October 23 last year.

The court heard that Beavan had previously assaulted a man on October 11 by beating him, and then attacked him again on the same day as the incident in which the van was damaged.

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The offences took place in Hay-on-Wye on the Herefordshire border.

Beavan, of Glasbury-on-Wye, was handed a six-month conditional discharge. This means that she has not been sentenced immediately for the offence and will only be sentenced if she were to commit another offence in the next six months.

She was ordered to pay compensation of £500 for the offence, as well as two £500 fines.

Magistrates said her guilty pleas were taken into account when they imposed her sentence.