A DRUNK hooligan admitted attacking a police officer.

Nathan Lloyd, 22, of Montpelier Place, Brighton, attacked the officer in St James’s Street.

At Brighton Magistrates’ Court he also admitted threatening behaviour at A&E at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, and racist harassment in New Road, Brighton.

He was in breach of a suspended sentence for offences including possessing a knife and stealing alcohol in Newcastle.

Magistrates imposed a new eight-week suspended sentence, with 20 rehabilitation sessions.