A 19-year-old Kingswood man will stand jury trial in July after he pleaded not guilty today to assaulting two men in Coleford while armed with an imitation firearm.
At Gloucester Crown Court James Taplin, of Nind Lane, Kingswood, denied assaulting two men on February 7, causing them both actual bodily harm.
He also pleaded not guilty to possessing an imitation firearm while committing an offence of assault and he denied criminally damaging a door, bed, chest of drawers, bookcase, electricity meter, bedside light and window belonging to Mr Cooper.
Judge Jamie Tabor QC remanded him in custody to await trial on July 10.
Taplin will stand trial with co-accused Leon Davis, 22, of no fixed address, who last week pleaded not guilty to similar charges as well as an allegation of being in possession of a bladed article in Spout Lane, Coleford.
The court was told that a third man had been arrested in connection with the same alleged offences.
Judge Tabor urged the police to process the case against that man as speedily as possible so he can be tried at the same time as Davis and Taplin.
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