THE mother of a teenage girl who lured her daughter’s friend to her home began laying into him with a rolling pin, a court heard.

Kimberley Jepson, 33, began hitting the 17-year-old around the head and body because she blamed him for leaving her with a broken car window, Burnley Crown Court was told.

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Jepson briefly halted the attack, in her own back yard, and went to fetch a knife which she brandished at the youngster.

But the mother, reduced to tears in the dock, kept her liberty after the court heard she had been subjected to intimidation since the episode and had been forced to move home.

Jepson, formerly of Railway Terrace, Great Harwood, admitted affray and possession of an offensive weapon. She was given a 12-month prison sentence, suspended for a year.

Judge Beverley Lunt told her: “To do this when your 14-year-old daughter was looking on was nothing short of insane.”

But the judge accepted she was ‘at the end of her tether’ with the pair and had taken into account her previously relatively good character.

Sarah Gruffyds, prosecuting, said Jepson sent a text message from her daughter’s phone, inviting the 17-year-old to come around.

“That message had come from the defendant and was plainly to get him around because she received information that he responsible for some damage to her car,” she added.

Neighbours witnessed the attack on the teenager and later told police how she had beaten him with the rolling pin, the court heard.

One eyewitness described how she had also grabbed him by the scruff of the neck and headbutted him at one point.

Ken Hind, defending, said his client had been driven out of her home by repercussions stemming from the case.

“She accepts that she was wrong when she did what she did and deeply regrets what has happened,” said Mr Hind.

Jepson had been so worried about the outcome of the case she collapsed at work, in the past week, and feared going to prison, he told the court.