A PREGNANT woman and her boyfriend were jailed yesterday for attacking another couple in the street.

Katrina Robinson, 20, who is seven months' pregnant, and Terence Rowley, 26, punched and kicked a 16-year-old girl who said later that she thought she was going to be killed.

Robinson had wrongly accused the teenager and her boyfriend of being behind an assault on her father, said Michael Bosomworth, prosecuting.

Robinson sprayed cleaning fluid into the boyfriend's eyes and then she dragged the girl to the ground by her hair.

She banged the girl's head against a wall, and the couple both kicked her in the face as she pleaded with them to leave her alone, Teesside Crown Court was told.

As her boyfriend ran to intervene, Rowley pulled out a penknife telling him: "If you come near me I'm going to kill you".

Robin Denny, in mitigation, said Robinson now accepted that the youngsters were innocent victims, and Rowley got drawn into the attack.

Rowley appeared in court as a serving prisoner after being sentenced to seven months for criminal damage and assault on a police officer.

The judge, Recorder Andrew Kershaw, said: "There has to be an immediate custodial sentence and I make no distinction between you."

Robinson, of Challoner Road, Hartlepool, was sent to a young offender's institution for 15 months and Rowley, of the same address, was jailed for 15 months after they both pleaded guilty to affray.