A MAN who admitted carrying out sex attacks on a woman and a teenager has been jailed for 18 months.

Aidan Robb, 52, indecently assaulted a woman in her 40s when she stayed at his South Shields home in February last year.

But Newcastle Crown Court heard he had groped a 13-year-old girl in October the year before. He was arrested after the teenager wrote about what had happened, in a letter to her cousin, who told police.

Robb pleaded guilty to two charges of indecent assault.

Eric Elliott, defending, told the court that Robb had been drinking alcohol when the attacks happened, and said Robb could have been dealt with by a non-custodial sentence. But Mr Justice Hooper told him: "These offences are far too serious."

Robb, who now lives at Southwold Place, Cramlington, Northumberland, was sentenced to 18 months prison, with an extended supervision period of three years after his release.

Mr Justice Hooper made an order restraining him from working with children and he will be registered as a sex offender for ten years.