ALLEGED drug dealer Jason Daniels was charged with assault and criminal damage following his arrest by CID officers at Gloucester Crown Court yesterday morning.

Daniels, of Querns Road Cirencester, briefly appeared in court alongside Marin Elroy Anderson, 33, of Jasmine close, , Gloucester to face drugs charges and the pair were granted bail pending a date being set for their trial.

CID officers were waiting outside the court for Daniels, 43, and arrested him after he left it.

His arrest is in relation to an incident which occurred at 9.30am on Friday, in which a wood panel covering the window of a house in Austin Road, Cirencester was damaged and a 22-year-old man was punched and suffered bruising to the head.

Daniels will face the new charges at Cheltenham Magistrates' Court on February 26.