A MAN has been charged with drugs and assault offences after a reported disturbance.

Police were alerted to a ‘disturbance’ on Barton Court Road in New Milton on September 4 earlier this year.

Scott John William Smith of Barton Court Road was charged with multiple offences in relation to the incident.

Smith was charged with:

• Assault a person thereby occasioning them actual bodily harm

• Common assault of an emergency worker

• Criminal damage

• Possession of a controlled drug of Class B

• Racially / religiously aggravated intentional harassment / alarm / distress – words / writing

• Common assault

Smith is due to appear at Southampton Magistrates Court this morning (September 6).