Man jailed for attack on woman

A man who attacked the same woman twice in just over three months has been jailed.

Donald Sutherland Taylor Thoburn was imprisonedwithoutapre-sentence report after a court heard his offences carried an “inevitable custodial sentence”.

Thoburn, 50, of no fixed address, admitted committing assault by beating inSunderlandonOctober4 last year and January 7.

He also pleaded guilty to causing £200 of criminal damagebydamagingawindowbelongingtohisvictim on January 7.

Thoburn, who was givencreditforhisguiltypleas, was locked up for three months for each of the attacks by South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court.

The court also sentenced him to a 14-day concurrent jail term for the criminal damage.