A MAN who turned up to court wearing a t-shirt that said "I may be wrong, but it's highly unlikely" was jailed for assaulting a doctor, a nurse and a police officer.

Mariusz Stanislaw Podsaid, 42, was expected to turn up in the dock to be sentenced for three charges of assault of an emergency worker.

But when asked to confirm his name, he said: "My name is Augustinius Maximillian. You people have been calling me Mariusz Podsaid."

The court's legal advisor asked for him to be taken back to the cells to 'take a few moments to establish whether he is Mariusz Podsaid'.

When the defendant returned a few minutes later he was asked again to confirm his name.

He replied: "I have no name and no body. I'm an individual who no longer exists."

Podsaid, who represented himself at South Cumbria Magistrates' Court on Friday, was taken back to the cells, with the sentencing going ahead in his absence.

He was charged for assaulting three people in Barrow on June 28.

Prosecutor Lindsay Travis told the court the Kendal man had been in the town to attend court for another matter.

He was then said to have gone for a drink at the Furness Railway pub, where he was invited for breakfast by a woman who lived in Emlyn Street.

After a drink at her house he was said to have been assaulted by a man, receiving a head injury.

He was attended to by PC Stephen Herbert and taken to Furness General Hospital.

There he was said to have assaulted Dr Nazreen Sahbeer and the officer.

He was seen by radiographer Kirsty Johnson for a brain scan.

She said in a statement: "He pulled back and spat his blood at me.

“The incident made me feel disgusted, dirty and violated.”

Sentencing him, chair of the bench Les Johnson called Podsaid's actions 'disgusting'.

The man, whose address was given as Preston prison, was sentenced to 52 weeks in prison and told to pay a total of £600 in compensation.