A WOMAN beat up her partner and his ex-partner in separate incidents, a court heard.

Cassie Elizabeth Anne Archer, 22, got her partner locked up for 12 hours on January 23 by lying to police that he had bitten and punched her, said David Hall, prosecuting at York Crown Court.

In reality, she had attacked him with a curtain rail and cut him with a knife when he was collecting his belongings from her house.

She was on bail at the time because, in a separate incident, she and Alisha Louise Atkinson, now 19, had fought her partner's ex-partner and a fourth woman.

Archer and the ex-partner had exchanged hostile phone calls and emails for much of March 24 last year before the ex-partner with the fourth woman travelled from Foxwood to Archer's home in Tang Hall, arriving about midnight.

Recorder Andrew Dallas said all four women had been drinking. Archer, of Alcuin Avenue, pleaded guilty to affray, assaulting her partner, carrying a knife and wasting police time.

She was given a seven-month prison sentence suspended for 12 months on condition she did a three-month-long nightly curfew and 60 days’ rehabilitative activities.

Her barrister Ben Campbell said she was no longer with the man at the centre of the case.

Their relationship had been “volatile”. She had been six months’ pregnant in January, had not been taking her medication for depression and anxiety and had responded emotionally to a comment he made, said Mr Campbell.

Atkinson, also of Alcuin Avenue, who had been 17 at the time of the fight with the ex-partner, pleaded guilty to affray and was given a five-month prison sentence suspended for 12 months on condition she does 120 hours’ unpaid work and 15 days’ rehabilitative activities.

Her barrister Chloe Fairley gave no mitigation after the judge indicated the sentence he would give.

Mr Hall said the ex-partner suffered injuries to her face and forehead and needed stitches in her ear.

The fourth woman suffered an injury to her eye’s tear duct that needed a tube inserting for six months and other injuries.

Mr Hall said Archer and Atkinson pulled the ex-partner’s hair and punched her after she, accompanied by the fourth woman, shouted outside Archer’s house.

Archer and Atkinson, who was visiting her, went out to the two from Foxwood. At one point the fourth woman was thrown into the house and kicked in the face before being dragged back into the garden.

Neither Archer nor Atkinson had previous convictions. Atkinson had committed a series of crimes since then, but none in recent months. Mr Campbell said Archer’s baby needed her.