A WOMAN is awaiting sentence after admitting affray at a "dosshouse" where a drug addict was seriously injured leaping from the second floor window.

Kathy Bannister, who was also a heroin abuser, was originally charged with the more serious allegation of wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm, Burnley Crown Court heard.

Bannister, 29, whose address Judge Edward Slinger chose not to reveal, was bailed until October 22, for a pre-sentence report. She was told she could go to jail.

Anthony Cross, defending, told the court the incident began with an argument over a relatively small amount of cannabis the evening before teenager Kelly Duckworth leapt from the window of a Burnley house on February 23.

Both Bannister and Miss Duckworth had a protracted history of heroin abuse.

Also present in the house was a man who, the evening before, had been playing with a blow torch and issuing threats about other people.

The house had a sign in the window saying: "hotel, dosshouse, take what you want and more".

Mr Cross said Bannister admitted being involved in public disorder which inconvenienced people taking their children to school.

She did not anticipate that Miss Duckworth would jump out of a window.

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