A man has been held in custody ahead of sentencing in Crown Court after admitting charges of knife possession and assault in Aberystwyth.

William MacPherson, of no fixed abode, appeared before Aberystwyth Magistrates’ Court on 26 August.

The 43-year-old had pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to possession of a knife on Bath Street in Aberystwyth on 3 August as well as assaulting a woman in Aberystwyth on 31 July and 3 August this year.

MacPherson is now due to be sentenced for the offences at Swansea Crown Court on 9 September.

He was remanded in custody by magistrates until that sentencing date.