British court jails mum for biting son

A MOTHER was jailed by a British court today after biting her five-year-old son in a "revenge" attack because he had hurt his baby sister.

Asked why she did it, the 28-year-old mother-of-two said: "I don't know. Probably that he hurt his sister, so he's got to be hurt.

"It's an automatic reaction to protect your youngest. He had already had his DS (Nintendo games console) confiscated earlier this week. I feel really guilty. At the end of day it's my baby. He's my baby."

Judge Horton, jailing the woman for five months in Cheltenham, southwest England, said: "There can be few offences more likely to cause anger and desire for retribution from the public."

"This is a case of pure anger where she appeared to have taken revenge on her own son for injury caused to the other child."

The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had hopes of becoming a counsellor.

Both her children have since been taken into care.