BACKGROUND reports have been ordered into a man who went on a vandalism rampage in a Borders town and assaulted four people.

Shane Donnelly, 22, pleaded guilty at Selkirk Sheriff Court to a series of offences in Greenlaw on the night of May 29.

He admitted three charges of malicious damage to vehicles in the Church Street area by damaging wing mirrors and a car window.

In East High Street he pushed a man to the ground, punched and kicked him on the head and struck him on the head with a glass bottle to his injury.

Donnelly, formerly of Hawick but now living at Low Greens in Berwick-upon-Tweed, also pleaded guilty to assaulting a police constable by repeatedly kicking him on the body to his injury and obstructing two officers by struggling violently with them.

He was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary where he spat on a police officer and was then racially abusive to medical staff and also made homophobic remarks.

Donnelly pleaded guilty to a total of 10 offences.

Sheriff Peter Paterson told him: "These are serious matters and all sentencing options are open to the court."

He called for a Criminal Justice Social Work Report to be produced along with a Restriction of Liberty Order assessment and deferred sentence until April 20.