A MAN who assaulted two different women in one day has been sentenced by a court in Cornwall. 

Jed Leon Madron, aged 38, of Trelawney Place in Copperhouse, Hayle, appeared in front of magistrates at Truro Magistrates' Court on Thursday, June 15 on two counts of assault by beating and one count of possession of a Class B drug. 

The offences took place in Hayle of October 6, 2022 where Madron was accused of assaulting two female victims by beating them.

He was also found to be in possession of a quantity of cannabis and a grinder, a device used for preparing the drug. 

Madron pleaded guilty to all three offences. 

During his sentencing, Madron was made the subject of a community order under which he must take part in a rehabilitation activity for a maximum period of 25 days, as well as being made the subject of a restraining order prohibiting him from contacting one of the victims and going to an address in west Cornwall for a period of one year.

Madron was also fined £3,200 and made to pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £114 as well as pay costs of £85 to the Crown Prosecution Service and compensation of £150.

The court noted how Madron's guilty pleas had been taken into account when imposing the sentence and ordered the cannabis and grinder be forefeited to the police and destroyed. 

According to the Sentencing Council, sentences handed down for these types of offences vary depending on a number of factors such as whether the offence committed was common assault, actual bodily harm, or grievous bodily harm or wounding.

Sentences are also worked out by assessing harm and culpability, that is, whether the attack was sustained or repeated and how responsible the offender was for the assault.

The maximum sentence for a common assault that isn't against an emergency worker or racially or religiously aggravated is six months custody.

This raises to one year's custody if the assault is against an emergency worker and two years custody if the assault is religiously or racially motivated.