A motorist who drove a car without one of its tyres before punching a policeman in the face has had his sentence adjourned.

Karl McCarthy was last month convicted of dangerous driving, assault with intent to resist arrest and causing actual bodily harm in Banbury on January 6.

The 34-year-old, of Nethercote Road, Tackley, was to be sentenced at Oxford Crown Court yesterday but the hearing was adjourned to July 23 for psychiatric reports.