A MOTHER who was electrocuted by broken Christmas tree lights was saved by her quick-thinking son.

Six-year-old Connor Stamp switched off the power at the socket, cutting off the electricity supply and saving his mother Lyndsay’s life.

The terrifying incident happened at the family’s home in Chaucer Road, Canterbury, at about 4pm on Friday.

Mrs Stamp and her son were on their own in the lounge trying to sort out a tangle of lights before decorating their Christmas tree. Her husband Matthew, who was working a late shift at the Cherry Tree pub in Canterbury that evening, was asleep in another room.

Mrs Stamp, 27, said: "I had turned the lights on and was running my hand along the wires trying to untangle them.

"Suddenly I could feel myself being electrocuted. It felt like my whole body was being massively vibrated but in a really painful way. The pain went right up one arm, across my chest and down the other arm."

Fortunately Connor, a pupil at Pilgrims Way School, stayed calm, did not touch his mother and turned off the lights at the power socket. Mrs Stamp, who was left with burns on both hands, was checked over at Kent and Canterbury Hospital’s minor injuries unit.

She said: "I had to have an ECG to check that my heart had not been damaged, and a blood test. Both tests were clear and I was able to go home.

"The doctors and nurses said I had been very lucky, and if it had not been for Connor it could have been much worse. If he had not switched the power off I could have died."

Connor, who will be seven next week had since had nightmares about the accident, said Mrs Stamp.

"We have had an emotional battering and it has crossed my mind that I might not have been here for Christmas," she said. "Plugging the lights in before I tried to detangle them was silly, but I didn’t know they were broken when I was trying to untangle them.

"Luckily Connor knew exactly what to do and saved me – he is my hero."