A SETTLE man who submitted another man to a sustained attack in the town centre last September has been given a suspended prison sentence of eight months by a judge at Bradford Crown Court.

Andrew Taylor, 51, admitted the assault occasioning actual bodily harm of the man outside the Royal Oak Hotel in the Market Place at Skipton Magistrates Court earlier this month.

Taylor also admitted criminal damage to the man’s glasses and also the assault by beating, at the same time, to the man’s wife, and was sent by magistrates to crown court for sentencing.

Magistrates were told that Taylor, who had previously sought advice from the other man on a property matter, attacked him and his wife after both parties had left the pub.

The whole incident was recorded on a passing motorist’s dashcam and showed Taylor punching the other man and kicking his head after he had fallen to the ground.

Magistrates were told at the time that Taylor, of previous good character, was utterly ashamed of what he had done, and had never been in trouble with the police, or appeared in court, before.

Today (Friday), Taylor, of Duke Street, Settle, was sentenced to eight months in prison, suspended for two years. He will have to carry out 200 hours unpaid work and will be subject to a six month electronic curfew between the hours of 7pm and 7am. Taylor will also have to pay £1,000 compensation and pay a surcharge of £140.