A MAN registered as having ‘no fixed abode’ from the Torpoint area has been handed a four-and-a-half-year prison sentence for grievous bodily harm with intent.

Tony Colling Edwards, 53, pleaded guilty at Truro Crown Court to causing grievous bodily harm to a man with intent at an address in Carbeile Road, Torpoint on 29 April.

A charge of threatening a man with a knife, which he had denied, will remain on file.

He was sent to prison for 54 months, his crossbow was confiscated and he was made subject to a restraining order not to contact a man or a woman or go to Carbeile Road until July 3, 2036.