Attacker’s positive Covid test

A woman who admitted launching a savage bottle attack and had a blade in her handbag turned up for sentencing after testing positive for Covid.
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Amanda Round, 53, of Derby House in Scholes, had stood before Wigan justices to plead guilty to wounding Katherine Lyon on June 29 and possessing a large kitchen knife in Diggle Street the next day. She was to be sentenced by a Bolton judge, but on arriving and mentioning her condition she was turned away and the case was suspended until a date yet to be set.

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