A mother-of-three hurled a 13-year-old girl in a canal on the way home after a drinking session, a court was told.

Kimberley O’Horo’s victim went under the water and had to be helped out by her brother after the night-time incident on October 12.

Just half an hour before, O’Horo was said to have punched a 15-year-old schoolgirl twice in the face, leaving her with a black eye.

Both victims were strangers, Burnley magistrates heard.

The drunken defendant, 40, said to have had six litres of cider because of family problems, has now be warned she could be facing jail.

O’Horo, of Parkinson Street, Burnley, had admitted two counts of assault by beating and her case was adjourned until December 4, for a pre-sentence report.

The bench told her all options would be open and they were not ruling out custody.