A 30-YEAR-OLD Stroud man admitted assaulting a man and causing criminal damage to a dog cage when he appeared in Cheltenham Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, December 5.

Stephen King of Mount Orchard, Theescombe, Amberley, Stroud pleaded guilty to assaulting a man on December 4.

He also admitted damaging a £28 dog cage belonging to a woman in Amberley and behaving in a threatening manner on the same occasion.

King was placed on a community order until December 2018, fined £50 and ordered to pay £28 compensation.

King was also made the subject of a restraining order not to contact either of the victims for the next three years.