A 33-year-old man is facing charges of theft, GBH, aggravated vehicle taking, affray and failure to provide a drugs test following his arrest over an attack on a security guard at Tesco in Purley Cross.

Mark Payne, of no fixed abode, was arrested on October 27 and appeared at Croydon Magistrates' Court the next day. He was transferred to Staines Magistrates' Court on another matter and remanded in custody until his next court date.