A SON punched his disabled mum, stamped on her head and left her fearing she might die after he smashed his way into her south Cumbria home.

Louis Pattinson, 24, was living with mother Jackie McKie at Storth, near Arnside, when the attack, on August 26 of this year, took place.

Earlier that day, Pattinson had ridden away on his motorbike, having made a number of critical comments.

Ms McKie locked the front door and did not want him back in the house.

But at around 11pm she heard the front door handle being tried and then the sound of a large double-glazed rear window being smashed by Pattinson’s bike helmet.

“At that point Ms McKie called the police,” prosecutor Gerard Rogerson told Carlisle Crown Court.

“She started screaming and ran into a bedroom.”

As she waited for police to arrive, Pattinson ran into the room and punched his mother’s arms, telling her that, if police did turn up: “I’m going to finish you off.”

Pattinson pushed her onto a bed, made threats and forced her to cancel the attendance of police who were already on their way.

He poured water over his mother, punched her about the face and body and grabbed her hair, causing her to feel clumps coming away from the scalp. Pattinson then repeatedly stamped on her head.

“The injuries are mercifully light in the context of the severity of the offence,” said Mr Rogerson.

In an impact statement, Ms McKie said: “I genuinely thought he was going to kill me.

“I was so relieved when the police arrived.”

She said: “It seemed as though he had taken something; his eyes were so black and evil.”

Pattinson, now of no fixed address, admitted using violence to secure entry to premises, actual bodily harm, assault and criminal damage.

Now actively seeking help for personal difficulties, the defendant wrote in a letter: “I’m ashamed I took my anger out on my mum.”

His barrister, Claire Larton, said: “He has demonstrated, now, regret and remorse.”

Recorder Ciaran Rankin jailed Pattinson for 20 months and banned him from contacting his mother for two years.

“Your mental and physical ill-health is an issue,” said the judge.

“But that is no excuse for what you had done that evening.”