Friction between women at a Maidstone nightclub led to one of them having a chunk bitten out of her bottom lip, a court heard.

Carley Turner sank her teeth into Jamie Evans, leaving her bleeding profusely and scarred.

Now the 20-year-old, of The Spires, Strood, could be facing a jail sentence for wounding.

Miss Evans described the vicious attack as like somebody biting into a piece of meat and "ripping" it.

Maidstone Crown Court heard the victim went to Strawberry Moons in Maidstone with friends on August 9 last year.

Richard Scott, prosecuting, said while outside in the smoking area Miss Evans was confronted by Nicola Wallace, a friend of Turner's.

Back inside the club, Miss Evans sensed that Turner and Miss Wallace were following her, so she and her friends decided to leave.

They went to another club nearby but because there was a long queue to get in they returned to Strawberry Moons.

Again, Miss Evans and friends sensed they were being followed. They decided to leave in the early hours.

Mr Scott said as Miss Evans went down the stairs there was another confrontation. It was then that Turner intervened and bit her on the lip. A bar worker saw Turner spit something out.

The victim was taken to Medway Maritime Hospital and then referred to the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead.

"The bottom half of her lip was stitched back together," the prosecutor told the jury of seven women and five men.

When interviewed by police, Turner insisted it was a dreadful accident. She said she intervened in the pushing that was going on and was kneed in the groin.

That made her bend forward, she said, and she ended up headbutting Miss Evans. She denied there was a deliberate attempt to bite a lump out of the victim's lip.

Turner admitted unlawful wounding. She denied wounding with intent and was acquitted.

Adjourning sentence until November 20 and granting bail, Recorder Colin Reese QC said the bias was towards a custodial sentence but it is was not a certainty as it would have been if there had been a conviction on the more serious charge.