Update: Now living in Bath

February 2001

Former Bude Town Councillor released from prison

Former Bude Town Councillor Kenneth Bennett, 58, has just been released from jail after serving three months for indecent assault on a young female

Bennett was originally handed a nine-month sentence at Truro Crown Court last October, but it was reduced to six on appeal at the Royal Court of Justice, and he was released from Exeter Prison on Friday January 26 after serving just three months.

Bennett has been placed on the Sexual Offences Register for the next ten years