A STONEHOUSE woman who assaulted five people in Stroud has been given a suspended prison sentence.

Kirsty Rule, 21, of Wharfedale Way in Stonehouse appeared before Cheltenham magistrates and pleaded guilty to all the charges against her.

On April 2 she assaulted and man and a woman and on April 3 she assaulted another two people.

She also did £70 damage to a car rear windscreen wiper belonging to one of the victims.

On July 2 she then assaulted another man.

All the offences occurred at Stroud.

On August 10 and September 1 she failed to surrender to Cheltenham magistrates court.

Rule was given a 26-week jail sentence suspended for 12 months and made the subject of an alcohol treatment programme.