A MAN who attacked a special constable after he stole items at a chemists was warned he could be jailed by a judge.

Mark Anthony Cording, of Atherley Road, Shanklin, admitted assaulting an emergency worker in the execution of his duty, resisting arrest and shoplifting at Boots on July 20, when he appeared at the Isle of Wight Crown Court on Monday.

The incidents happened in Regent Street, Shanklin. Police had to use a Taser to subdue him.

Cording is currently serving a year's probation for driving without insurance and a licence, and failing to give a drink-drive specimen, for which he was banned from driving for three years.

The judge, Recorder Barry McElduff, ordered a report on Cording, not ruling out the possibility he could be imprisoned at his next hearing.

Cording was bailed to reappear for sentencing at the same venue on October 14.