A YOUNG mum who did not complete a community service order has been spared from a jail term - but only because she has a baby.

Paula Quigley, 18, of Woone Lane, Clitheroe, had earlier been convicted of affray.

She was told by a judge she had played "fast and loose" with court orders and had been given two chances to finish the 50-hour order, imposed two years ago.

Judge Edward Slinger told Quigley she could have been sent to custody for her part in violence which left two girls injured in the first place and that court orders were meant to be obeyed.

He allowed her to try to finish the order and told her: "Had it not been for the fact you have a young child, you would have gone to custody. I am taking a merciful course for the third time."

Paul Hague, defending, said Quigley was working, living with her boyfriend and now had a four-month-old child.

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