One of three women accused of taking part in a fight outside Bailey’s Bay Cricket Club has received an absolute discharge after changing her plea.

Brandi Bassett, 22, of Suffering Lane, St George’s, initially denied her involvement in the incident in the early hours of December 27.

But at Magistrates’ Court yesterday she changed her plea to guilty and avoided a criminal conviction.

Ms Bassett first appeared in court on Friday alongside ReAna Harris, of Friswell’s Road, Pembroke, and Akilah Smith, of Robert’s Avenue, Devonshire.

Ms Harris was also charged with taking part in the fight and denied the charge, while Ms Smith denied unlawfully assaulting a woman and doing her actual bodily harm.

Ms Bassett, who is set to return to school in Miami, Florida, where she is earning a master’s degree in social work, said she only became involved in the fray in order to defend her friend.

“I’d expect someone of your background and education to behave better than this,” Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner told her.

Prosecutor Nicole Smith told Mr Warner she believed “an absolute discharge is in order.”

Ms Harris and Ms Smith are on bail and due back in court on June 23.