Rozanne Sarah Randerson, 18, appeared before York Crown Court for sentencing on two charges of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, committed on two sisters outside a nightclub in the town centre in the early hours of the morning.

She also appeared for sentencing for breaching a previous court order imposed for kicking a female outside yet another Scarborough club and for a public order offence in which she threatened to "smash" a man's face in after he intervened to break up another street altercation outside a nightspot.

Ruth Cranage, mitigating, said that after being remanded in custody for the two assaults, her client had spent 50 days locked up and apart from the first few days, had found the punishment "easy". Miss Cranage asked the court for a different form of punishment which would allow her to take part in alcohol, childcare and anger management courses.

She said Randerson was frightened at the prospect of giving birth alone in custody next January, having been told by the authorities that her mother would not be allowed to be with her.

Judge Wolstenholme told Randerson that she had, in recent months, been running wild, regularly getting drunk and becoming seriously violent in confrontations outside nightclubs. He said that for her own and her yet to be born child, she needed help.

Although a 12-month custodial sentence would normally be appropriate in her case, he said he recognised she would be out in less than six months without any kind of control on her behaviour.

Simon Ostler, prosecuting, told the court how Jodie and Samantha Bellshore had been out in Scarborough town centre on June 21 this year, and were attacked by three females, including the defendant, outside Vivaz nightclub.

Jodie Bellshore, 26, was kicked while on the ground by Randserson and now fears going out in the town. Her 32-year-old sister had her head stamped on and was also kicked when she tried to intervene, the court hearing she still had to wear a wrist support and take painkillers.

Mr Ostler said the assaults were committed while Randserson, of Edgehill Road, Scarborough, was on bail for a public order offence, committed on April 5 and again outside Vivaz.

In January, this year, Randerson had been placed under a community order by Scarborough magistrates for another public order offence when she was seen by police kicking another girl in the head and body outside Boleyn's nightclub in the town on November 17, last year.

Judge Wolstenholme sentenced Randerson to 50 weeks' custody, suspended for two years and placed her under a daily curfew from 7pm to 7am for six months to "keep her away from nightclubs and binge-drinking".

She was also placed under a two year supervision order with conditions that she take part in programmes to deal with her problems.