AN ATTACKER who pleaded guilty to assaulting a man in Hereford has been given a hefty court bill.

Kye Brown, 33, attacked a man and caused him actual bodily harm in an incident in Hereford on March 10.

Brown, of Sufton Rise, Mordiford, admitted one count of assaulting a person thereby occasioning them actual bodily harm and was handed a £500 fine.

Assaulting a person thereby occasioning them actual bodily harm is an offence under section 47 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861.

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He must also pay £100 in compensation to the victim, prosecution costs of £85 and a victim surcharge of £200.

His guilty plea was taken into account by magistrates when they sentenced him on September 24. He had originally entered the plea on August 28 at a previous hearing.

Brown, who was represented in court by defence solicitor Matthew Lewis, must settle his court bill in monthly installments starting on October 22.