by Keith Hunt

At the age of 29 she has accumulated a long record for violent offences, but Jamie Hannan sunk to a new low when she attacked her own mother.

She left Frances Hannan, 62, bleeding and with a broken jaw after objecting to being told to "sort her life out".

Afterwards the drug addict forced her mother to drink beer through a straw to make it look as though she had fallen while drunk.

Hannan, of Symons Avenue, Chatham, was jailed for 21 months this week after admitting inflicting grievous bodily harm shortly before she was due to stand trial on the charge.

Her mother was ready to give evidence against her.

Judith King, prosecuting, said Hannan was staying with her mum on August 13 last year and was argumentative and spoiling for a fight.

Mrs Hannan went out with her sister and when she returned "had words" with her daughter.

"The next thing she remembers is her face and head hitting the floor," Mrs King told Maidstone Crown Court. "Miss Hannan said: ‘I am so sorry, mum, but you drove me to it.’"

Hannan called an ambulance and in the meantime tried to clean up her mother. Mrs Hannan believed her bloody top had been changed and she saw a can of beer with a straw in it.

"She thought she may have given it to her to bolster her story that her mother got drunk and fell over and injured herself," said the prosecutor.

When paramedics arrived, Mrs Hannan indicated her daughter had injured her.

She was taken to Medway Hospital and found to have a fractured jaw. She also had a tooth missing.

She was referred to the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, where metal plates and screws were inserted into her jaw.

There were complications afterwards and she needed psychotherapy.

Hannan had a number of convictions for violence. She was jailed for 15 months for wounding in June 2009 and for two-and-a-half years for supplying Class A drugs in May 2002.

Judge Philip Statman told Hannan: "You are a woman who is before the courts on a regular basis for offences of violence.

"You are approaching the time when courts will be considering an extended sentence for public protection."