A 28-YEAR-OLD man who admitted to a sexual assault has been given a community order and a fine.

Robert Anders, of Brookway Lane, Parr, was sentenced at Liverpool Magistrates' Court on Monday (April 23).

He had pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to intentionally touching a woman without consent while at a St Helens pub on Saturday, February 3.

Anders was given a community order with a curfew requirement for eight weeks and a restraining order imposed.

Anders must pay £100 in compensation; an £85 victim surcharge and a further £85 in costs.