A MAN has convicted of assaulting a woman by beating in Oldham last year.

Magistrates at Stockport returned a guilty verdict on Ainsley Boothroyd, 22, of Redgrave Street, Greenacres.

He was ordered to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work in the next 12 months and to pay £250 compensation, £200 costs and £90 to victim services.

Boothroyd was also issued with a restraining order prohibiting him from making direct or indirect contact with his victim, except through social services, the family courts or solicitors, or a nominated third party for the purposes of child contact, until November 12, 2022.