A 26-YEAR-OLD Stonehouse man has admitted offences of racially aggravated assault and possessing cocaine.

Joshua Hollingshead of Crescent Road, Stonehouse pleaded guilty at Cheltenham Magistrates’ Court on Friday to assaulting a man in Stroud on July 28.

Hollingshead accepted that the assault was racially aggravated.

He also admitted racially aggravated assault against another man on the same occasion.

Hollingshead further pleaded guilty to possessing 3.1 grams of cocaine at the time.

Cheltenham magistrates ordered a pre-sentence report to be prepared and granted him unconditional bail until November 30.