TWO men have admitted their roles in an unprovoked assault which left a woman fearing her husband had been killed.

Harry Biberger, 20, and Charlie Coleman, 19, have each pleaded guilty to actual bodily harm following the night-time attack last March.

Biberger also admitted other matters of aggravated taking without consent and driving while disqualified from December 2017.

Now the pair have been told they could be facing jail for the brutal, booze-fuelled, attack on a bridge across County Way in Trowbridge.

Biberger, of West Ashton Road, and Coleman, of Stratton on the Fosse, have been released on bail to May 3 when they are to be sentenced.

Judge Robert Pawson, sitting at Swindon Crown Court, warned them they too were facing the prospect of jail after hearing the third attacker was already serving time.

He said "Don't assume that the fact that I am directing that there is a pre-sentence report it is any indication of what the sentence will be. On the basis of what I have read it will almost certainly be custody."

18-year-old Corri Nickle, has already been jailed for 22 months for his role in the assault with another 18 months added on for drug dealing.

The three pals had been out drinking on the night of the incident, getting thrown out of a pub for their drunken behaviour.

As they were walking over the bridge near Tesco in the early hours a couple on the way home from a 50th birthday party were coming the other way.

One of the young men struck the husband and the other two joined in, raining punches and kicks on him while he was on the ground.

When the victim's wife tried to stop the attack she was knocked to the ground and her husband bravely covered her with his body to protect her.

He was then knocked unconscious as they rained blows to his body and head, only fleeing when another passerby appeared.

As she waited for the ambulance the wife thought her husband, who suffered horrific facial injuries, had been killed.