An alleged Parkside affiliate admitted assaulting and threatening his female cousin, who he accused of links to the rival 42 gang.Prince Edness pushed and slapped Chantice Butterfield and threw a drink over her during a confrontation at a city bar.According to prosecutors, he also pushed her in the back of the head, causing her to fall down a flight of stairs during the incident at Captain’s Lounge.He later tried to get her to drop assault charges against him.Ms Butterfield, who is aged in her late teens, is the granddaughter of Cabinet Minister Neletha Butterfield.Edness admitted to assault, uttering threatening words and conspiring to pervert justice when he appeared at Magistrates’ Court yesterday.According to prosecutor Kirsty-Anne Kiellor, he approached Ms Butterfield in the bar and pushed her, asking her what she was doing there.Ms Butterfield believed this was due to “concerns she may be affiliated with a group, of which the defendants are of the opposing gang.”She walked away to get a drink but Edness asked: “Did you come up here to set us up?”He made references to the 42 gang, and according to the prosecutor, Ms Butterfield “didn’t feel comfortable and walked out of the club”.She got involved in an incident with two other women as she attempted to leave.Then, said Ms Kiellor, Edness came up behind her and pushed her, causing her to fall down the stairs.He told her: “Don’t come round here no more or I’ll kill you and your 42 friends” before throwing his drink in her face and slapping her across the face.Ms Butterfield reported the attack to police and Edness was arrested on February 8. While he was in Police custody, the victim got a call on her mobile phone from K’Wonde Lathan.According to Ms Kiellor, Lathan connected Ms Butterfield into a conference call with Edness, who was at Hamilton Police Station.According to the prosecutor, they made her feel she would not be safe unless she dropped the charges.Edness initially denied the charges he faced, but changed his pleas to guilty yesterday afternoon.Ms Kiellor urged Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo to jail him, due to the “very serious” nature of the case.“Gang violence has been very active in recent years,” she noted.Defence lawyer Shade Subair asked for a non-custodial sentence. She said Edness denies pushing Ms Butterfield down the stairs.She added: “What Mr Edness does not accept happened is that he, with any seriousness, threatened the life of the complainant.”Mr Tokunbo said he wanted to obtain a social background report on Edness and a victim impact statement from Ms Butterfield before he sentences Edness, who will return to court on March 24.He remanded him into custody until then.Edness was brought to and from Magistrates’ Court amid a heavy police presence yesterday afternoon, having been shot twice in recent years.He suffered serious injuries when he was shot in the area of Court and Elliott Streets in Hamilton last August. Police publicly linked the incident to ongoing rivalry between the Parkside and 42 gangs.He was also shot on Princess Street, Pembroke, in August 2008 and has previous convictions for assault, and assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm.Meanwhile Lathan is charged separately with another man, Jari Fishbacher, of conspiring to pervert the course of justice in the Edness case.He is a former police cadet, and another of Minister Butterfield’s grandchildren.All three accused men were described by Ms Kiellor during an earlier court appearance as friends with each other, and affiliates of Parkside.Lathan and Fishbacher deny the charges they face, and are due to stand trial in May.