A HOMELESS Taunton man has pleaded guilty to committing eight offences in a single day in the county town.

Bobby Nigel Cox, 29, of no fixed address will be sentenced at Taunton Crown Court on October 27.

The charges he admitted to during an appearance at Taunton Magistrates' Court all relating to incidents on Tuesday, September 12, were:

assault by beating of a female;

damage under £5,000 to a woman's car;

damage under £5,000 to a police van at Musgrove Park Hospital;

two counts of possession of an offensive weapon, namely needles, with which he threatened another person in Corporation Street;

possession of an offensive weapon, namely needles, with which he threatened another person at Musgrove Park Hospital;

two counts of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour.