A YOUNG woman suffering a drink problem was told that any further offences were likely to see her sent to prison.

Wendy Wilkinson, 18, yesterday pleaded guilty to breaching a community rehabilitation order imposed in June for two assaults, including one on a police officer, and for criminal damage and resisting police.

Harrogate Magistrates Court heard it had been the second breach of the order.

Wilkinson's solicitor, Geoffrey Rogers, said the first breach had occurred because she had "got her priorities wrong'' after securing a job in a bakery. Fearing the sack if she did not turn up, she missed appointments with the probation service - and later lost the job too. The latest breach had followed the loss of her home in Stockwell Place, Knaresborough.

She felt her rehabilitation was helping and wanted to be given a "final chance", Mr Rogers said.

Court chairman Pauline Ward revoked the 12-month order and imposed another to run for six months. Much of the work, she said, which included addressing Wilkinson's drinking with the Harrogate Alcohol and Drugs Agency, had been completed in the early stages.

Mrs Ward added: ''You must realise this cannot work unless you put the effort in.

"Whatever else is happening in your life, so far as work or other people are concerned, this takes priority. Because, if you (breach the order) again, we are looking at custody.''