A man who threw items at Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has admitted a public order offence.
Josh Greally, 28, was arrested in the town centre of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, two weeks ago after he threw what looked like a coffee cup and another object at Mr Farage.
The politician was campaigning on the top deck of a battle bus in the town, waving to supporters. The objects appeared to narrowly miss him.
Greally, from Chesterfield, pleaded guilty when he appeared for a short hearing on Wednesday at Barnsley Magistrates’ Court.
District Judge Tim Spruce asked for a pre-sentence report to be prepared on Greally, and said he would sentence him on 28 August.
Video footage of the day showed a man in a red hoodie shouting from below, before reaching into a bucket and throwing something, which also missed.
People in green high-vis jackets dragged him away and police arrested him.
Mr Farage said officers warned him not to get off the bus.
He said afterwards that most of the protesters that day were young people either at or freshly out of university.
Protesters have thrown objects at him in public on a string of occasions, after he was first hit by a milkshake in Newcastle in 2019.
