A MAN from Liskeard is to serve two consecutive sentences, totalling eight years, for aggravated burglary and sexual assault.

Michael Booth, 53, of West Street, Liskeard pleaded guilty at Truro Crown Court to aggravated burglary at a property in Centenary Street, Camborne in October 2024 when he used a wooden chair spindle as a weapon.

He was given a custodial sentence of eight years and eight months with 54 months to be spent in prison and was made subject to a restraining order not to contact a man or a woman or enter Centenary Street, Camborne until June 10, 2041.

He was also sentenced for a separate incident when he changed his plea to guilty on a charge of sexually assaulting a woman by penetration at Hayle on December 21.

He had already pleaded guilty to assaulting her occasioning her actual bodily harm. He was sent to prison for 50 months to run consecutively to his first sentence and was made subject to a restraining order not to contact a woman or go to an address in Hayle until June 10, 2041.