Man jailed after sexual assault on holiday partner

A 58-year-old man who took a woman less than half his age on an “innocent” holiday to Blackpool in separate beds has been jailed for sexually assaulting her.

- by Aimee Seddon

Anthony Hall, who was said in court to have climbed into the woman's bed and groped her after a night out, was jailed for 18 months at Preston Crown Court.

A judge was told the victim, who was in her 20s, trusted him so much that she agreed to share a room. But partway through the holiday he arrived back drunk in the early hours, stripped down to shorts and T-shirt and jumped into her bed while she was trying to get to sleep.