Dawlish News
A “drunken lout”, caught on CCTV as he groped a student in Exeter, has had his jail term halved by top judges on appeal.
Shane Hobbs was spotted by camera operators as he staggered around the city centre, lunging at women as they walked past.
The 27-year-old, of Lee Cliff Park, Dawlish Warren, Devon, was jailed for 16 months at Exeter Crown Court in April after admitting sexual assault and common assault. But his sentence was yesterday cut to eight months by judges sitting at London’s Criminal Appeal Court, who said the original term was “excessive”.
