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| Heather Mills attacker sentenced | Heather Mills attacker sentenced |
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| A photographer who was found guilty of assaulting Heather Mills-McCartney as he tried to take her picture has been given a 140-hour community order. | A photographer who was found guilty of assaulting Heather Mills-McCartney as he tried to take her picture has been given a 140-hour community order. |
| Jay Kaycappa, 32, of Fareham, Hampshire, was sentenced by Brighton magistrates after being convicted at a previous hearing. | Jay Kaycappa, 32, of Fareham, Hampshire, was sentenced by Brighton magistrates after being convicted at a previous hearing. |
| The attack took place in a subway in the city on 5 July 2006. | The attack took place in a subway in the city on 5 July 2006. |
| Kaycappa approached the estranged wife of Sir Paul McCartney and grabbed her right shoulder to swing her round. | |
| He was also convicted of assaulting Ms Mills-McCartney's friend Mark Payne the next evening. | He was also convicted of assaulting Ms Mills-McCartney's friend Mark Payne the next evening. |
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| Chairwoman of the bench Juliet Smith also ordered Kaycappa, of The Hurdles, Fareham, to pay £100 to Ms Mills-McCartney, £50 to Mr Payne, and costs of £1,000. | |
| She said: "In both incidents you demonstrated persistence that in fact we consider to be beyond an acceptable level. | |
| "However your actions have not caused any injury." | |
| During the trial, magistrates heard the assault happened as Ms Mills-McCartney cycled from her seafront home in Hove to Brighton. | |
| Ms Mills-McCartney was not in court for the sentencing | |
| She was accompanied by her personal trainer Ben Amigoni, 23, Mr Payne and his partner Michael Shilub. | |
| The 39-year-old former model and anti-landmines campaigner told the court she ducked into the subway to avoid the paparazzi but was spotted by a photographer at the subway's exit. | |
| She told the court she "felt like a trapped animal". | |
| Defence lawyers had argued that date and time stamps on a sequence of photographs suggested that Ms Mills-McCartney had lied about events. | |
| The three-day trial was told the freelance photographer had 132 criminal convictions for dishonesty offences. | |
| Ms Mills-McCartney was not in court for the sentencing on Thursday. |