A pregnant, HIV-positive woman bit a doorman after he told her to leave a pub, a court heard.

Primrose Oniyamo clamped her teeth around Pieter van der Merwe’s left hand in Aldershot’s Goose pub in Victoria Road on December 22 last year, prosecutor Anton Allera told Aldershot magistrates.

The court heard on Monday how the 25-year-old had served three months in prison for actual bodily harm after biting two police officers outside Cheeks nightclub – now Vox – in Station Road, Aldershot, in January 2006 after being refused entry.

Oniyamo, who came to this country from Zimbabwe nine years ago, was given a four-month prison term, suspended for 18 months, by court chairman Andy Butler for her latest attack.

Mr Allera said she had become hostile towards her South African victim at around 7pm accusing him of being racist towards her when he asked Oniyamo to leave after seeing her drinking vodka from a bottle she concealed in a handbag.

“She grabbed him by the arm and bit him on his hand between the thumb and finger,” he told the court.

“The bite did not leave a lasting injury and did not puncture his skin.”

Oniyamo then fell to the ground where she rolled around saying she was pregnant before vomiting on the pavement, Mr Allera said. Police found a half-empty half litre bottle of vodka in her handbag after she was arrested.

Under police interview Oniyamo said she had not drunk from her bottle and that she had been manhandled after being asked to leave, the court heard.

He said Oniyamo, who listened to proceedings from the dock with the aid of an interpreter, had been sent to prison in 2006 because her attack had drawn blood which “risked passing on her HIV infection” to her victims.

None of the three people she bit contracted the disease.

The defendant, who denied a charge of assault by beating, was found guilty by magistrates on June 27 after a trial.

They had put off sentencing until Monday for a probation report to be compiled.

Robert Emuss, defending, said his client had been struggling with an alcohol addiction but was not somebody who had a “total obsession” with drink.

“When she is sober she is able to offer so much to the community,” he added.

After a 45-minute deliberation, Mr Butler told Oniyamo: “This was a very serious offence and we are satisfied that it is so serious that a custodial sentence is the only answer.

“Our reason for that is that you deliberately bit your victim when you knew that you were HIV-positive.

“It is aggravated by the fact that you had committed a previous offence of a similar nature.”

Oniyamo, of Parsons Close, Aldershot, who wept in the dock, was ordered to attend 20 sessions of essential skills training and was told to complete an 18-month supervision order.

Oniyamo was told to pay £100 compensation to her victim and the same sum in court costs.