A PREGNANT former lapdancer was warned she could face a jail sentence yesterday after admitting attacking a landlady at a Gwent pub.

Young mother Amanda Jayne Wright, 23, appeared before Newport crown court and admitted assaulting landlady Jean Bees at Chepstow's The Bridge pub. She also admitted attacking another woman, Rosemary Jenkins.

Wright, formerly of Beaufort Square, Chepstow, appeared before the court with Damien Woodgate, 25, formerly of Cinder Hill Street, Monmouth, who admitted a charge of battery.

The pair, who now have a Bristol address, entered guilty pleas yesterday before a trial was due to start.

Wright had denied assault occasioning bodily harm against Ms Jenkins and Mrs Bees. But she then admitted assault occasioning bodily harm against Ms Jenkins and battery against Mrs Bees.

Woodgate had pleaded not guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm against the pub's landlord Christopher Bees. Yesterday he admitted a charge of battery.

The violence erupted at closing time on October 25, last year. Elizabeth Pearson, for Wright, said her client has an 11 month-old baby and is currently three months pregnant.

Sentence was adjourned for the preparation of reports.

Recorder Malcolm Bishop, QC, warned Woodgate and Wright, who was a former lapdancer in Bristol, the fact he was adjourning the case "does mean in any way that you will escape an immediate custodial sentence. All options are open." They were bailed and sentence was adjourned until later this month.

Speaking outside the court, Sergeant Sam Atkinson from Chepstow police, said: "At drinking up time at around 11.45pm an altercation took place in The Bridge pub in which the landlord and landlady and another woman were assaulted."

Ms Jenkins needed hospital treatment for "extensive facial injuries" after she was attacked.