BACKGROUND reports have been ordered into a Borders teenager who admitted assaulting a 17-year-old male to his injury and three weeks later making threats of violence towards him.
Nineteen-year-old Adam Redpath, of Hawick, pleaded guilty to pushing and kicking his victim on the body in North Bridge Street, Hawick, on July 2.
Jedburgh Sheriff Court was told that in Hawick's Howegate on July 22 he uttered threats of violence towards the 17-year-old.
Redpath, of Wellfield Road, had sentenced deferred until April 12 for the production of a Criminal Justice Social Work Report and a Restriction of Liberty Order assessment.
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