A MAN faces being sent to jail after assaulting three people who tried to intervene in a row he was having with his girlfriend.

In the early evening of Saturday September 29 a 999 call was made by Gary Donning who witnessed Jordan Forster assault his girlfriend Alina Elliot in Stanley Street in Ulverston.

Forster, from Darlington, saw Mr Donning on the phone and began to verbally abuse him and Mr Donning's partner Evie Lawrence.

Forster pushed Mr Donning in the chest and slapped him on the face. He also assaulted Miss Lawrence.

Neighbours had started to come out of their homes after hearing the commotion.

Forster became aggressive towards them and bit one one resident, Natalie Fowler, between her left shoulder and collarbone.

Police officers arrived on the scene at around 5.45pm and arrested 23-year-old Forster.

He was taken to Barrow Police Station where he urinated on the floor of a cell and on a blanket.

Forster, of Haughton Road in Darlington, appeared at South Cumbria Magistrates' Court on Wednesday where he pleaded guilty to three counts of assault and causing criminal damage to the police cell.

The assault on Miss Elliot was withdrawn because the victim did not support the prosecution and in light of his other guilty pleas.

The court heard Forster is currently subject to a suspended sentence which had been imposed by Preston Crown Court in August.

The suspended sentence was imposed after Forster was convicted of possession of a knife in a public place and using threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour.

Forster, who was represented in court by Trystan Roberts, was bailed until a sentencing hearing at Preston Crown Court on November 1.

Bail conditions prevent him from entering Cumbria