A TAUNTON man has admitted attacking two security officers at the town's Musgrove Park Hospital.

Craig Joseph Howells pleaded guilty to assaulting by beating the on-duty emergency workers on March 11 this year.

He appeared via video link at Taunton Magistrates' Court this week and was remanded in custody at Exeter Prison.

He was ordered to appear before a judge at Taunton Crown Court for sentencing on Friday, December 18 or on a date to be fixed by that court.

Howells, 37, who previously lived in Severn Drive, Taunton, has a history of assaulting officers and security staff.

In May this year he was jailed for six months after pleading guilty to kicking a police officer and threatening him with a syringe, claiming he had hepatitis C.