8:10pm Wednesday 10th March 2010
Neighbours Kirsty Thomas and Bridgette Doyle have been warned they could be jailed after admitting assaulting a woman.
The pair attacked Alison Ballagh at her Penhill home in September last year, a court was told.
Thomas, 23, and Doyle, 36, both of Woodsman Road, Abbey Meads, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
Both had been charged with aggravated burglary at a house on Mildenhall Way, Penhill, and were due to face a trial at Swindon Crown Court.
But prosecutors dropped the aggravated burglary charge when they admitted carrying out the assault before a jury could be sworn in on the first day the trial was due to take place.
Anthony Brinkard, 27, who lives with Thomas, was also due to face trial alongside the two women on the same two charges.
But the case against him was dropped after he agreed to be bound over to keep the peace.
An earlier hearing heard that Miss Ballagh was in a relationship with the former partner of one of the two defendants.
Judge David Ticehurst adjourned the case until Wednesday, April 7, to allow the probation service time to prepare pre-sentence reports on the two women.
And he warned them they could still be jailed for the matter saying “all options are open to judge who deals with you including an immediate prison sentence.”
He bound over Brinkard for 18 months in the sum of £250, telling him to keep out of trouble.
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