A MAN has been locked up for sexually assaulting a woman at a city address.

Matthew Bedwell has been jailed for a total two years following an attack in March.

He was sentenced at Southampton Crown Court earlier this week in connection with the attack that happened in the Bevois area of the city

Bedwell, 29, of Mullen Close, Southampton, pleaded guilty to a single charge of sexual assault.

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