A TEENAGER who stabbed a 15-year-old girl five times has been warned she faces being locked up.

The attacker, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pounced after coaxing the younger girl into the street.

Newcastle Crown Court was told how the girl was stabbed in the arms and upper body with a serrated kitchen knife.

Michael Hodson, prosecuting, said the teenager had planned the attack because she thought her victim had been seeing her boyfriend.

The assault happened in Hebburn, South Tyneside, on October 29 last year.

The jury found her guilty of wounding with intent.

The teenager, from Hebburn, had already admitted a lesser charge of wounding, but prosecutors refused to accept the plea.

The case was adjourned for a pre-sentence report but Judge Maurice Carr told her: "Custody is inevitable."