A WOMAN has admitted pushing a 76-year-old who plunged down a staircase breaking her shoulder and wrist.

Anne Jones was due to face a re-trial on Monday on a charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm but instead changed her plea to guilty.

Liverpool Crown Court heard that Jones admitted the offence on the basis there had been a verbal disagreement and she had pushed the woman but had not pushed her down the stairs and had not intended to injure her.

When Jones, of Castle Street, Tyldesley, faced trial in March she denied pushing the woman, Ruby Ganley, at all and said that when she left the premises, Peake Fitness Social Club in Leigh, on March 10 last year the victim was sitting at the bar.

The jury heard that Jones, who had earlier that evening been causing trouble in the premises along with a male friend, insulted the woman while they were both in the toilets at the same time.

When Mrs Ganley tried to manoeuvre past her at the top of the narrow staircase she "said something to her and violently pushed her with both hands to the upper part of her chest," according to Frances Hertzog, prosecuting.

"This unfortunately caused her to fall backwards down that short flight of stairs," he said.

"She put her hand out to break her fall but landed badly with her full body weight on her outstretched hands and lay on the floor screaming out in pain and later rendered unconscious by the knock downstairs."

Mrs Ganley, now aged 77, fractured her left wrist which pierced her skin causing bleeding and at hospital it was found she had broken both main bones in her wrist and her left shoulder was also fractured. She had to undergo surgery to fix plates in her wrist.

Jones, aged 47, was further remanded in custody until November 27.