by Keith Hunt

A heavily pregnant woman faces the prospect of having her baby in prison after admitting two robberies.

Heroin addicts Jodie Shaw, 27, and Darren Blayney, 32, pleaded guilty to robbing Rachel Larmour and James Barney of cash on August 21.

Blayney, of Anglesey Close, Chatham, and Shaw, of Milburn Road, Gillingham, also admitted driving while disqualified the same day in a Toyota Corolla car in New Road, High Street and Medway Street, Chatham.

Blayney was one of three men jailed for five years in October 2003 for a knifepoint robbery of a man in an alleyway near Chatham train station.

The gang held the blade to the terrified victim's throat and robbed him of his mobile phone and cash cards.

Alexia Zimbler, defending, told Maidstone Crown Court on Monday Blayney had almost completed his detox.

Tom Stern, for seven months pregnant Shaw, said she was a heroin addict on a methadone prescription. She had a lengthy list of convictions including actual bodily harm.

Judge Jeremy Carey said a risk assessment for dangerousness would have to be carried out on Blayney.

"You have both pleaded guilty to serious criminal offending," he said. "I have been told you have been given realistic advice about the outcome."

Blayney and Shaw were remanded in custody and will be sentenced after December 5.