A 40-YEAR-OLD man slapped his mum across the face as she drove him to her home.

Blackburn magistrates heard that when she stopped the car Christopher Follett got out and attacked the vehicle with her walking stick causing £400 worth of damage.

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Follett, of Stanley Street, Oswaldtwistle, pleaded guilty to assaulting Sheila Follett, damaging her car and damaging a camera in a police station cell.

He was made subject to community supervision for 12 months by magistrates with drink and drug rehabilitation requirements, fined £20 and ordered to pay £400 compensation to his mother, £80 to Lancashire Constabulary and £150 criminal court charge.

He was also made subject to a restraining order for 12 months preventing him having any contact with his mother or going within 100m of her home.

Parveen Akhtar, prosecuting, said Mrs Follett had not spoken to her son for six years and in the past she had taken out an injunction against him. On the day of the offence he phoned and asked her to pick him up but then started an argument.

“He slapped her across the face,” said Miss Akhtar.

After his arrest Follett smeared excrement on a camera in his cell.