TWO people from Newport were locked up after attacking four women in three separate attacks.

Samantha Jones, 25, and Lewis Wilkins, 18, both of Tregare Street, appeared at Newport Crown Court after pleading guilty to three separate assaults.

Jones pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm and possessing an offensive weapon after going to the home of Natalie Case on February 9 , 2011, over a debt Miss Case owed to Wilkins.

Prosecutor Mike Hammett said when Miss Case opened the door Jones repeatedly hit her with a foot-long stick she picked up at the scene, leaving her with bruising on her head and body.

The court heard on April 26, 2011, Jones was in Newport city centre when she, along with Alana Davies, who was sentenced previously, launched an unprovoked attack on Ceri Round and friend Stacey Hughes. Jones got Miss Round to the floor and kicked her to the head.

In a third attack, Mr Hammett said, Jones and Wilkins were outside the King’s Hotel at 2.30am on New Year’s Day when friends Elliese Evans and Helen Gould walked past.

As they did, Jones knocked Miss Evans’ handbag from her grasp then, when she bent to pick it up, Wilkins kicked her in the face, which Miss Evans likened to “being hit by a brick”.

When Miss Gould intervened to help Jones grabbed her hair and they fell to the ground before Jones bit her on the leg, then the nose.

Jones pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm for the last two attacks, as did Wilkins for his part in the final assault. Stephen Thomas, for Jones, said she did not seek to blame anyone else for what happened and expressed remorse.

Claire Pickthall, for Wilkins, said he was mortified about his behaviour and wished to publicly apologise to Miss Evans.

Jones was jailed for three months for the first incident, six months concurrent for the second and a consecutive term of six months for the third attack – 12 months in total.

Wilkins was sent to a young offenders’ institution for six months for the assault, with a two-month consecutive sentence for breaching an existing community order and a three-month consecutive sentence for breaching a conditional discharge – totalling eight months.