A PENPARCAU man has been handed a 12-month conditional discharge after pleading guilty to the common assault of an EastEnders and Hinterland actor outside a pub.

Steven Paul Welsby of 7, Third Avenue, originally denied a charge of causing actual bodily harm, but the charge was changed to common assault ahead of a trial at Aberystwyth Justice Centre.

Welsby pleaded guilty to the attack on Aneirin Hughes, who plays chief superintendent Brian Prosser in the internationally acclaimed Hinterland series, and has also starred in EastEnders, during the incident outside Rummers Wine Bar on Bridge Street, in the early hours of Sunday, 10 July last year.

Three men including Welsby were on a stag do when the assault over a long-standing dispute about agriculture land took place.

Two other men, Meirion Edwards, 52, and 24-year-old Dewi Edwards - both of Ger y Coed, Cwmsymlog - were fined at an earlier hearing after pleading guilty to their part in the assault.

Welsby was given a 12-month conditional discharge and also ordered to pay £50 compensation and a victim surcharge of £20.