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A mum was left with horrific injuries after a woman bit a chunk of flesh out of her face at a house party.

Claire McCluskey viciously attacked victim Kate Nield at a house in Southport, Merseyside, on February 26 .

The 29-year-old initially pleaded not guilty to wounding with intent to cause GBH, but yesterday admitted a lesser charge of wounding without intent in a deal with the Crown Prosecution Service.

Speaking after the incident, mum-of-two Miss Nield, 26, told the Liverpool Echo : “She bit me and took a big chunk out of my face.

"There was blood everywhere.”

Doctors at Whiston Hospital later spent an hour performing a skin graft on Miss Nield, taking skin from the back of her arm and putting it onto the damaged part of her face.

McCluskey, of Brook Close in Southport, entered her guilty plea during a brief hearing at Liverpool Crown Court today.

Judge Recorder Stephen Riordan, QC, adjourned the case for pre-sentence reports to be prepared and McCluskey will be sentenced on September 21.

She was released on bail.