A WOMAN has been handed a suspended sentence after assaulting a woman.

Sally Corfield, of Atherton Road, Hindley carried out the assault in Wigan on July 6 last year.

The 39-year-old was given a sentence of four months suspended for a year.

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She was also ordered to carry out a rehabilitation course, pay compensation of £250, a £122 victim services surcharge and £85 in court costs.

Corfield was sentenced at Wigan and Leigh Magistrates' Court on Friday.