ASSAULTING an emergency worker at Powys/Shropshire border village has landed one Newtown man a two-week prison sentence.

Ricki Kirkham, 39 and of Treowen in Newtown, was expected to stand trial for four offences at Shrewsbury – assaulting an emergency worker, two counts of assault by beating and threatening a person with a blade or weapon.

The charges relate to an incident that took place in Bronwylfa in Llanymynech on March 20 this year.

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However, on the morning of his trial, the defendant pleaded guilty to assaulting an emergency worker.

Meanwhile, the prosecution offered no evidence against the two charges of assault by beating and the charge of threatening a person with a blade or weapon.

He was jailed for two weeks.