REPORTS have been ordered into a Peebles man who carried out two assaults in the town centre in broad daylight.

Thirty-seven-year-old Christopher Cassidy punched both men to the head to their injury in the Old Town in Peebles.

The assaults were captured on CCTV and footage played at Selkirk Sheriff Court.

Defence lawyer Robert More said the victims were well known to the court.

He said his client had been reacting to thefts of various items, a pensioner being struck and a brick thrown through a window.

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When he came across the two men he suspected of the offences he carried out the attack.

Mr More said: "He did not go looking for them but on seeing them he assaulted them.

"Being in broad daylight and with other people watching, on the face of it it appears very stark.

"But the two men have since apologised to my client and there are mitigating factors to allow the case to be dealt with today."

But Sheriff Peter Paterson noted Cassidy had a previous conviction for assault to severe injury and deferred sentence until May 3 for the production of a Criminal Justice Social Work Report.