TEENAGE twins will be sentenced next month after they admitted attacking their stepfather and mother.
The 16-year-old boys pleaded guilty to alternative charges at Teesside Crown Court yesterday.
They admitted joint charges of wounding their stepfather with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, and of assault occasioning actual bodily harm against their mother.
One boy also admitted wounding his sister, who was stabbed in the hand during violence at the family home in Hartlepool on May 4.
The brothers had originally been accused of attempting to murder their step- father.
The Recorder of Middlesbrough, Judge Peter Fox, imposed an order which prohibits the media from naming the twins - to be reviewed when the case returns in about three weeks.
The case was adjourned for pre-sentence reports by probation workers, and the brothers were remanded in custody at Castington Young Offenders' Institution, in Northumberland.
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