A FIREFIGHTER dubbed the Beast of Bath has been jailed for nine years after carrying out a string of sex attacks on women in the city.

Adrian Warburton, 38, of The Halve, Trowbridge, admitted assaulting nine women between October 2004 and July 2005.

Passing sentence at Bristol Crown Court today, Judge Julian Lambert said: "From the autumn of 2004 to the summer of 2005 you terrorised young women in the city of Bath."

"You perpetrated a campaign of sexual assaults. This was planned and sustained abuse, which in several instances was of the utmost seriousness."

Warburton has since been dismissed from his position with Wiltshire Fire Brigade in Trowbridge.