A TEENAGE member of a Worcester gang, headed by "The Wildcat", has been locked up for the third time.

The Tolladine girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, wept as magistrates sentenced her to six months' detention and training for breaching an order imposed for attacking a group of girls in the city in April.

The 15-year-old will spend half her sentence in a detention centre and the other half being supervised in the community.

In May, the gang's leader, dubbed "The Wildcat" by police, was sent to detention for a second time for a string of offences, including kicking a police officer and attacking another girl with a bottle.

Despite extensive efforts by the Evening News to overturn a ruling protecting her identity, magistrates have repeatedly refused to let us name her or print her full address.

Magistrates yesterday heard how the 15-year-old standing in front of them had failed to comply with an intensive supervision and surveillance (ISSP) order.

The order had been imposed in May, when she and her partner-in-crime, "The Wildcat", assaulted a gang of girls.

Justin Bowen, prosecuting, told the court both the girls admitted affray following the attack in the city centre on Saturday, April 6.

Both had been holding bottles when they attacked the group, but it was only the pint-sized "Wildcat" leader who used a bottle to hit her victim. "The defendant kicked one of the victims, pulled her hair and kicked her in the back and side," he said.

"The defendant has a long history of offences and as a result was given the ISSP which involved a high level of supervision relating to her background and offending.

"The programme was a direct alternative to detention."

During yesterday's hearing, the teenager admitted breaching the ISSP.

David Taylor, defending, accepted efforts to deal with the defendant in the community had failed.

But he insisted because the teenager had not used a bottle during the attack, it would be unfair to give her as severe a sentence as "The Wildcat", who received an eight-month detention and training order.

"She found the intensity of the programme too much, but there are not many teenagers who would be told what to do for 25 hours a week," he said.

"Therefore we are here to re-sentence her.

"It's a sad day for everyone involved, but my client is not all bad and, in some respects, the team monitoring her had very positive things to say about her."