A COURT has ordered another report be prepared on a man accused of assaulting a police officer.

Alexander Bennett, 28, of Shakespeare Road, Royal Wootton Bassett, appeared before magistrates sitting in Swindon on Monday charged with assaulting a police officer in Swindon on June 14, 2015, a further charge of damaging a sign belonging to The Rolleston Arms on September 2, 2015, and damaging a police van door by kicking it on the same date.

He is further charged with using threatening behaviour and resisting arrest on the same date.

Bennett also faces charges dating from September 25, 2015, of being drunk and disorderly, assaulting another police officer and using threatening language.

Magistrates have ordered that a second report be carried out on him before they pass sentence. He will next appear in court on March 7.