A man who kicked a security guard in the stomach in the street yesterday pleaded guilty in Supreme Court to robbery using violence.

Calvin Leonard Richardson, 37, of no fixed abode, attacked Rupert Jackson in Bermudiana Road on April 26 last year as he emerged from the Bank of Bermuda and grabbed the bank bags.

But he tossed them aside after finding them empty and was quickly apprehended by Chief Inspector Anthony Mouchette who was patrolling in an unmarked Police car that morning.

Mr. Jackson said he had tried to fight off Richardson, who has a long criminal record, but was winded by the kick to his stomach.

He told the court the blow just below his navel caused bruising and he had to take the day off because of the pain.

Chief Inspector Mouchette said he saw the fight developing as he waited in traffic by the Lobster Pot restaurant and recognised the security officer and Richardson.

?They were tussling back and forth. I jumped out of my vehicle and ran to the front where the struggling was taking place.

?I saw Mr. Richardson deliver a kick to the stomach of the security officer.?

He then saw Richardson unzip the bags, drop them and walk away and then he caught up with him and arrested him on suspicion of robbery.

He said Richardson told him: ?I don?t have a job, I don?t have any money.?

Defence lawyer Anthony Richardson asked for a social inquiry report and a psychological report which prompted Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons to say that little could be done.

She said: ?We have very little in our arsenal of rehabilitative and corrective sentencing options for mental health issues.?

She read out the defendants? appalling criminal record which dated back to the mid 1980s and included violence and theft offences, including a five-year sentence for robbery, as well as forging and dishonesty offences.

Richardson will reappear at the March arraignment session for a sentencing date.