A woman couldn’t be sentenced by a crown court judge – because she was having a baby.

Donna Keen, 36, of Hawkins Road, Aldbourne, had been due before Swindon Crown Court early last week to be sentenced for using a pool cue to attack a woman in an Aldbourne sports club last September then biting a police officer in the shoulder.

But the hearing had to be adjourned as she had developed preeclampsia, a condition causing high blood pressure during pregnancy.

On Friday, prosecutor Mark Worsley told Judge Peter Crabtree the defendant had since given birth.

“There’s been some happy news for her. She’s had a baby yesterday,” he said.

The baby was born around nine weeks’ premature and although Keen had been discharged from hospital, her child was still being cared for by specialist medics.

Emma Handslip, defending, said her client was keen to progress the case. Keen had

Judge Crabtree adjourned sentence to October 22.