TWO Dursley sisters who got into a night club skirmish with another woman have both been placed under 10 week curfew orders at Gloucester Crown Court today.
Charlotte Warrington, 20, of Rosebery Mount, and her sister Shereene, 26, of Frederick Thomas Road, had originally been due to stand trial on a charge of assaulting a woman causing actual bodily harm.
But their pleas of guilty to a less serious alternative of disorderly behaviour were accepted by the Crown and today they both smiled as they emerged from Gloucester Crown Court.
Prosecutor Kirsty Real told the court that the girls had been at Capone's nightclub in Dursley on December 30 last year.
"There had been bad feelings between the defendants and the complainant's families for months before this incident," she told the court. "An argument began - at first verbal, but then physical."
Despite being pulled apart by bar staff, the three began fighting again. The confrontation left the victim with scratches and bruising to her head and a cut to her hairline.
Ms Real told the court Charlotte Warrington had convictions stretching back to an assault when she was 14 while her sister also had various convictions, including an assault in 1999.
Defending Charlotte, David Martin said having a baby had turned his client's life around.
"The baby has given her cause for thought," he said, adding she was very keen to undergo anger management courses.
Charles Rowe, representing Shereene Warrington, said his client had three children (aged six, four and two) and with New Year's Eve approaching, had simply seen the opportunity to go out and celebrate.
"She wants to move from Dursley to Stroud where her mother lives," he told the court.
Judge William Hart said it was still difficult to know which sister did what in terms of the physical side of the confrontation.
"I don't know what the behaviour standards are in nightclubs in Dursley but, whatever they are, you fell well below them," he said.
The two women were put on a 10-week curfew from 7pm until 7am.
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