A NEW mother who bit two sisters during a brawl over a taxi was spared jail yesterday.

Victoria Milburn, 20, bit Marissa Ridley's finger and thigh and bit a section out of Marina Gray's ear.

Newcastle Crown Court heard how it was Milburn's first night out since she had a baby a few weeks earlier.

When the night, in South Shields, South Tyneside, ended, she was dragged from a taxi by the two sisters and violence erupted.

Milburn, of Selbourne Street, South Shields, admitted two charges of assault.

She was sentenced to a 12-month community rehabilitation order.