Two women punched and stamped on another female as she lay helpless in the street during a brutal city centre attack.
In what a judge described as one of the worst assaults of its type, Stacey Alberts and Melanie Wallace repeatedly struck and kicked the defenceless victim while she was on the ground. The ruthless pair then punched her in the face every time she tried to raise her head, a court was told.
The whole attack was captured on CCTV and Wallace and Alberts were identified and arrested but the extent of the victim's injuries were unknown as she was never traced. Now, Alberts, who has been recalled to prison after serving half a sentence for an offence of violence, has been locked up and Wallace has been warned she faces jail after they both appeared at Newcastle Magistrates' Court to plead guilty to assault by beating.
