A teenager punched two males in the face in Galashiels within two months.
Liam McMillan, 17, intervened outside a nightclub on September 16 and struck a youth who sustained a swollen and blocked nose. On November 14 he cornered another male in the doorway of Ladbrokes bookmakers, the attack resulting in a cut eye for the victim.
Sentence was deferred until June 3 for a criminal justice social work report to be prepared.
Sheriff Kevin Drummond warned McMillan, formerly of Galashiels but now living in England: “You are 17 years old and already you have two previous convictions for assault. You are just too ready with your fists. If you can’t stop it then somebody has got to stop it.”