
A Port Stephens man who held his housemate captive in a bedroom because he feared there were people waiting outside the home - and who stabbed a responding police officer in the face with a mechanic's tool - will be sentenced next month.
Adam William Ross King, 42, pleaded guilty in Newcastle Local Court on Wednesday to assault, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, assaulting police causing actual bodily harm, and possessing a prohibited drug.