A GRAYS teenager who assaulted a policeman was ordered to pay the officer £50 compensation and has to carry out 100 hours of unpaid community service.

Mass Fye, 18, of Schoolfield Way. Grays, admitted the assault when he appeared at Basildon Magistrates' Court and also admitted another assault, on Emily Nicholls - who gets £75 compensation.

His offence came in the wake of a previous assault on a policewoman - for which he had also been given an unpaid community work order, and an instruction to attend a rehabilitation progamme.

Fye also faced charges including breach of a previous community order for causing criminal damage.

BASILDON magistrates also heard of charges against another Grays man, Korie Leroy Berman, 21, of Barnmead Meadow, who is accused of wilfully obstructing a police offer. Berman was not present in court and has been ordered to attend for trial on Monday, 24 Febryary.

A GRAYS man, who the court heard had mental health issues, appeared before Basildon magistrates and admitted two charges of assault and threatening to kill.

Paul Stefan Chester, 25, who is in the charge of the mental health team at Grays Hall will be sentenced later this month and was released on bail on condition that he does not contact his victims, Jephet Samlero or Matthew Boreham.

YASAT Rehman, 35, of Bromley, Grays, admitted charges of breaching a non-molestation order order by sending emails to Ceri Amantullah.

He was fined £250 and ordered to pay costs and a surcharge totalling £137.