A MAN who punched another man in the head outside an Irish pub in the centre of Edinburgh will be sentenced later this month.

Bradley Colborne, 21, attacked Mark Ronaldson by punching him to the head in the street outside Biddy Mulligans at the Grassmarket.

The assault on March 23 was said to have caused the victim to fall to the ground to his injury.

Colborne pleaded guilty to assault, an offence committed while he was on a bail order, when he appeared in the dock at Edinburgh Sheriff Court last week.

Sheriff Christopher Dickson released Colborne, of Hoprig Avenue, Blindwells, on bail and deferred sentence for the preparation of reports to August 22.