A CANCER sufferer has been warned she faces jail for attacking a woman who was holding a five-year-old boy.
Lynn Middleton, 47, assaulted Jennifer Macphail while she was holding the youngster in Erskine, near Glasgow.
The grandmother admitted striking the 27-year-old on the face and head while she was carrying a child, all to her injury.
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Charges that she had also attacked the boy, who can't be named for legal reasons, and carried out an earlier attack on Miss Macphail were dropped by prosecutors.
At Paisley Sheriff Court, Sheriff Colin Pettigrew then warned Middleton she could be caged over the assault when sentenced next month.
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At an earlier court hearing Middleton's lawyer said the case had been delayed in coming to court because she had been receiving treatment for bowel cancer.
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