A MAN has admitted sex assaulting a woman in the back of an ambulance as he was being treated.

Luke Sewell, 37, of Kenilworth Road, Barry, pleaded guilty to committing the attack at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, last November.

He was jailed for four months, suspended for 24 months, and ordered to register as a sex offender for seven years.

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At Cardiff Magistrates’ Court, Sewell was ordered to complete a 50-day rehabilitation activity requirement and a six-month alcohol treatment requirement.

The defendant, who also admitted public disorder, must pay his victim £400 compensation and £100 prosecution costs.

Sewell must also pay a £100 fine for being in breach of a suspended prison sentence for drink driving and failing to stop.