A STONEMASON attacked a supermarket's female security guard after stealing £60 worth of goods, a court heard.

Burnley Crown Court was told that David Pengilly, 45, had first been sentenced tp 120 hours' community punishment by magistrates after being convicted of theft and common assault.

He later admitted breaching the order and was given a four month curfew order instead.

Yesterday he appealed against the curfew at Burnley Crown Court, where a judge and a magistrate reduced it to two months.

Pengilly, of Brunswick Street, Nelson, has already served eight weeks of the curfew so Judge Raymond Bennett said if the latest sentence was not already served, it soon would be.

The judge told him he had already served about 21 waking hours a week on the curfew and the bench thought the four months curfew which had originally been imposed by magistrates had perhaps been too high.

Martin Hackett, for the Crown, told the court the curfew order had been every day between 9pm and 6am.

Pengilly had been challenged by Janet Westwell after leaving Morrisons in Nelson.

He slapped her across the face and pulled her to the ground by her hair. When he was later questioned, he said he could not remember the incident because he was drunk.