A BOURNEMOUTH man has been handed a jail term for assaulting a prison officer.
Richard Hassett, aged 46, was accused of assaulting Ellis Hewer, an emergency worker acting in the exercise of his functions as such a worker, by beating him at HMP Erlestoke in Wiltshire on June 11 last year.
Hassett, who appeared via live video link, pleaded guilty to assault by beating of an emergency worker at a Swindon Magistrates’ Court hearing on Thursday, April 21.
The defendant, whose address was given as West Hill Road, Bournemouth, was committed to prison for six months.
He was sentenced without a pre-sentence report from the probation service because he was in custody for another matter and it was the inevitable disposal, court papers said.
Hassett was also ordered to pay the statutory victim surcharge of £128.
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