THREE county men left a man with serous injuries after attacking him with a hammer.

Andrew Yorkston and Lewis Sives, both 34, as well as 35-year-old William Peacock assaulted Marc Hughes by striking him with the blunt work tool during a shocking incident on Kings Road in Tranent.

The attackers also repeatedly punched and kicked their victim to the body during the attack on May 6 last year.

Yorkston, from Prestonpans, appeared from custody at Edinburgh Sheriff Court, where he pleaded guilty to the assault and to a charge of possessing an offensive weapon, namely the hammer.

Sheriff Kenneth Campbell KC was told that Yorkston had been on remand since August 11 last year and sentenced him to a 12-month prison term backdated to that date.

Sheriff Campbell then remanded his co-accused Sives, of Westbank Terrace, Macmerry, and Peacock, of Caesar Way, Tranent, in custody following their guilty pleas to the assault charge.

The pair will return to the dock to be sentenced later this month.