A Blackburn man carried out a knife attack on his mum - and then refused to call an ambulance for her.

Gwendoline O'Rourke had tried to deflect a bread knife but it ended up embedded in her calf.

Her son Paul Procter was jailed for 26 months when he appeared at Crown Court for sentencing .

The 31-year-old, formerly of Oban Drive, Blackburn, pleaded guilty to offences of unlawful wounding and burglary.

Procter was on bail, awaiting sentence for the burglary when he attacked his mother at her address on Town View, Blackburn.

He had burgled a neighbour's home in April, stealing a dart board and darts.

Mr Richard English, prosecuting at Preston Crown Court, said the defendant went to his mum's home in July. He was drunk and clearly upset, his girlfriend having ended their four year relationship.

His mother tried to comfort him, but he went on to take hold of a bread knife with an eight inch blade.

His mother later said in a statement "He came at me from the right side and had the knife aimed at my upper body.

"The knife was deflected downwards"

Procter refused to call an ambulance but his mother did not make a complaint at that stage because she didn't want her son to get into any more trouble.

Last month Procter was given 90 days' prison for a common assault on his mother and was due for release from that sentence.