A MAN who was arrested for being drunk and disorderly could not remember how he had sustained injuries from a fight or who he was fighting with.

Thomas Edwards, 27, of Tidnor Cross Mews in Lugwardine pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly in a public place.

At Hereford Magistrates Court Owen Beale, prosecuting, said on February 4 at 3.15am police were directed to a disturbance in Cantilupe Street in Hereford.

When officers arrived, Edwards walked up to PC Sullivan and was extremely close to her. He appeared to have been in a fight as he had a laceration above his eyebrow.

Mr Beale said: "He was trying to get past the officers and was shouting and swearing at another man. He was repeatedly told not to do so. He started to taking off his top."

Edwards wouldn't give his name to the officers and wouldn't calm down so he was arrested. His last offence was in 2010 for a section 4 public order act.

Edwards, who was representing himself, said: "I actually had no recollection of what happened to me. The last I remember is about to go to sleep in the police station. I had to go to hospital to be checked over. "

He added: "I didn't have any idea what happened to me. I don't have a clue who these people people were or who I was supposedly fighting with."

He said his friends told him he had disappeared in Saxtys.

Magistrates gave him a conditional discharge for six months and ordered him to pay costs of £135 and a victim surcharge of £20.