A Dudley garage owner has been jailed after admitting sexually assaulting a client and then intimidating her into dropping the charges against him.

52 year-old Robert Parke, from Valmour, Bromley in Pensnett was sentenced to four years and four months at Wolverhampton Crown Court, for sexual assault and perverting the course of justice.

He was also placed on the sex offenders register for life. 

The court heard how Parke, who owned the former RP Autos in Brierley Hill, admitted sexually assaulting the woman in May last year, after she bought a car from his garage.