months yesterday but will return to court on Monday where he will be sentenced for several counts of assault and causing bodily harm.

John Sinclair Anderson, of Hermitage Road, Devonshire, pleaded guilty in Magistrates' Court to three counts of unlawful assault, two counts of causing bodily harm, one count of unlawful wounding, two counts of using an offensive weapon, two counts of wilful damage and one count of behaving threateningly.

Crown counsel Cindy Clarke said a woman was pushing a child in a baby cart on February 28 when Anderson rode by her on his bike and cursed her.

He returned and tried to punch her but she blocked the punch. He then kicked her in the groin, pulled a baseball bat out of his pants and attempted to hit her.

Anderson told her: "I'm a devil in the night. I'll be back to haunt you so watch yourself.'' But Anderson told Magistrate Will Francis that the woman started cursing him first.

"This was a vicious attack and there's only one form of punishment for this,'' said Mr. Francis before sentencing him to six months imprisonment.

Ms Clarke also told how Anderson approached a couple and their child on St.

Monica's Road on February 17 at 8.15 p.m.

The father gave Anderson his phone number and his wife asked why. Anderson told her to mind her business before striking the passenger side of an Arctic Air Conditioning van.

He then hit the van's windscreen and shattered it with a baseball bat.

Yesterday he claimed it was the result of a drug sale gone bad.

And Ms Clarke said Lionel Jones was walking on Hermitage Road on his way to visit relatives on February 15 at 12.45 p.m. and passed Anderson chatting with friends.

Mr. Jones acknowledged the group but then Anderson hit him in the back of the head with a baseball bat.

Ms Clarke said Trevor Lindsay called Anderson over to the Bermuda Industrial Union parking lot on Union Street in Hamilton on February 28 where the two men talked before Anderson punched Lindsay in the left eye and fractured his cheekbone.

When arrested, Anderson kicked the door in the jail area and broke the glass, picked up a chair and smashed it against the wall -- causing $776.81 worth of damages.

Anderson also pleaded guilty to unlawfully wounding Oluf Ingemann with a machete in December.

Mr. Francis said he wanted to wait until the information about the Ingemann wounding was available on Monday before he sentenced Anderson.