A WOMAN who stabbed her father on her 19th birthday is awaiting sentence - after trying to strangle her sister after her 21st celebrations.

Shop worker Dana Doherty, of Townhouse Road, Nelson, was spared jail two years ago at Burnley Crown Court after she pleaded guilty to wounding.

She was given a two-year community order after a court was told how she knifed her father, Graham Doherty, in the arm.

Now she has been arrested again after another violent incident involving a member of the family, on May 20.

Elizabeth Read, prosec-uting, told the court the defendant had gone out for drinks the night before her 21st birthday.

She went back to her sister Bernadette's house, grabbed her around the throat and tried to strangle her.

A friend who witnessed the attack told police Bernadette's colour changed, and he thought she was going to die in front of him.

At court this week Doherty admitted assaulting Bernadette, 19, causing her actual bodily harm, and resisting police.

The court heard she had tried to bite a police officer who attempted to arrest her.

She was bailed until June 27 for the preparation of a pre-sentence report.

Burnley magistrates warned the defendant all options were open.