A TEENAGER with a drink problem was told that any further failure to comply with the rules was likely to mean a spell behind bars.

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

Harrogate Magistrates Court heard it had been the second breach of the 12-month order with Wilkinson's solicitor, Geoffrey Rogers, blaming work and accommodation problems.

Mr Rogers said the first breach had occurred because Wilkinson had found a job in a bakery and had ''got her priorities wrong.''

Fearing the sack if she did not turn up, she missed appointments with the probation service - and then lost the job anyway.

The latest breach had followed Wilkinson losing her home in Stockwell Place, Knaresborough.

She had been placed in temporary accommodation by Harrogate Borough Council - in Leeds because of a shortage locally - but hoped to return to the Harrogate district soon.

Mr Rogers said the cause of Wilkinson's first-ever appearance in court last year had been drink and she felt she was being helped by the rehabilitation work and wanted ''a final chance.''

Court chairman Pauline Ward revoked the 12-month order and imposed a fresh one to run for six months, telling Wilkinson much of the work, including addressing her drinking with the Harrogate Alcohol and Drugs Agency, was done 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 do this again, we are looking at custody.''