FINES totalling £700 have been imposed on a Hawick man who admitted three offences at Selkirk Sheriff Court.

Forty-eight-year-old Robert Young pleaded guilty to behaving in a threatening or abusive manner and making threats of violence to the police during an incident at a house in Mansfield Road on January 9.

He also assaulted a police officer by punching him in the stomach.

Young pleaded guilty on a separate complaint to possession of an offensive weapon – namely modified motorcycling gloves which had daggers sewn into the knuckles – at a house in Wellfield Road, Hawick, on July 13 last year.

Young had the offensive weapon as part of his hobby, studying the Japanese martial art Ninjutsu.

Defence lawyer Stephanie Clinkscale said her client also had swords which were not seized by police when they visited his home.

She added Young had been collecting knives as a hobby for a number of years.

In relation to the disturbance in January, she said her client had been suffering from a urine infection and was hallucinating which caused him to lash out.

Young, who gave an address in Mansfield Road, was fined a total of £500 with a £20 victim surcharge for the January incident.

He was fined another £200 with a £10 victim surcharge for the offensive weapon offence.