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Three charged following assault in Portsmouth

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Published: 15/08/2008

Three women have been charged following an assault which took place on Hampshire Terrace, Portsmouth.

At around 5.20pm on Saturday, May 17, a large group of around 25 people, including four women, were walking from Southsea Common where they had been watching the FA Cup Final football match, and heading towards Portsmouth and Southsea train station.

As the group walked along Hampshire Terrace, the came across a smaller group of around eight women, and a fight began between the women from the two groups.

During the altercation one woman, who was from the smaller group, was thrown against a car and hit her head, was punched and kicked repeatedly and also had a bottle smashed over her head.

The woman who was attacked, a 19-year-old from Emsworth, had ongoing treatment for her injuries at St Mary’s hospital, where lacerations in her scalp had to be glued together. She has now made a full recovery.

Three women were arrested immediately following the incident, and have now been charged.

Kelly Bone, 19, from Alliance Road in Gosport, and Holly Dawber, 20, from Edinburgh Road in Portsmouth, were both charged with affray following the incident.

Jade Waters, 20, from Dukes Road in Gosport, was charged with assault, affray, and obstructing a police officer in the course of duty after she attempted to resist arrest.

All three women appeared before magistrates on August 5, and are due to appear again on September 29.

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