by Julia Roberts

A teenage girl was scalded with boiling water mixed with sugar and burnt with cigarettes and a lighter by a jealous love rival and her pal.

Georgia Fenn, 18, was also punched, kicked, stamped on and had her ponytail cut off during the prolonged attack in a Tunbridge Wells flat.

Maidstone Crown Court heard that the teenager had been accused of sleeping with the ex-boyfriend of one of her attackers, Lucy Viner-Mood.

Viner-Mood, 22, and 18-year-old Lois Gibson locked Miss Fenn in the flat on March 28 and abused her for up to nine hours.

Prosecutor Jo Cope said Viner-Mood twice threw the boiling water and sugar solution - known as napalm in prison - at Miss Fenn.

The sugar makes it stick to the skin.

The first missed Miss Fenn but the second hit her on the back of her head.

She was eventually freed, barefoot, from the flat and warned not to go to the police.

Her injuries included two black eyes, a chipped front tooth, a shoemark to her head, swollen lips and gums, and burns to her face, hand and stomach.

Police photographs also showed her hair matted with blood, as well as bruises, scratches and grazing to her body and legs.

Viner-Mood and Gibson, both of Homewood Road, Langton Green, Tunbridge Wells, were originally charged with false imprisonment and causing grievous bodily harm with intent.

However, at today's hearing, guilty pleas were accepted to the lesser offence of assault causing actual bodily harm. Viner-Mood and Gibson also admitted false imprisonment.

Mrs Cope told the court that although Miss Fenn's injuries were "numerous and serious" they fell short of grievous bodily harm as they did not require stitches or surgery.

"It is hoped that there will not be permanent injury, save for small scarring and mental injury," she added.

Gibson sobbed in the dock as Judge Martin Joy warned the pair they face lengthy custodial sentences.

They were remanded in custody until July 2 for the preparation of probation reports.