A woman threw a dog bowl at her sister and pulled her wig off during a "cat fight" between feuding siblings.
There had been a background of ill-feeling between Adele Coates and the victim when it descended into violence at their mother's home. A court heard Coates scratched and clawed the victim's face, pressed her fingers into her eye and bit her finger during the assault in South Shields.
Coates, 50, was found guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and has now been given a suspended prison sentence at Newcastle Crown Court. Emma Dowling, prosecuting, said: "It happened against a backdrop of ill-feeling between them which has been going on for some time.
