A WILTSHIRE man who subjected another to a “sustained” assault has been jailed for six months.

Thomas Sykes, 28, had denied attacking his male victim in Chippenham last January.

But yesterday Salisbury magistrates found him guilty of causing actual bodily harm on January 11 last year.

Noting the assault had been sustained and committed in a public place they jailed Sykes, of no fixed address, for 26 weeks.

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Thomas Sykes' custody shot, released in January Picture: GWENT POLICE

In January, Sykes was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment by a judge at Cardiff Crown Court after the Lacock man admitted barging his way into an 83-year-old woman’s home in south Wales.

The court heard he and two others had knocked at the woman’s door and offered to do gardening work before pushing past her and making off with £600 cash.

Jailing him, Judge David Wynn Morgan told the defendant: “This was a despicable offence and you are despicable criminal.”