A MAN who assaulted a shopkeeper with a four-pack of bourbon has been given an 80-day jail sentence.

The man pleaded guilty to numerous charges including making threats and shop thefts before Mildura Magistrates' Court this week.

At the time of the offending, Serdar Akyuz, 41, was unemployed and homeless, having been kicked out of his parents' house, and told the court he wanted to be ...