Mum used buggy with her son in to 'ferociously' attack her friend - and then abandoned him

A mum used a buggy with her toddler son in to “ferociously” attack her friend - before abandoning him to continue the assault.

Sarah Kirby had her son on her hip when she began assaulting Molly Culshaw, 36, which sent her friend down to the floor. The mum-of-two then put the toddler in his buggy and used it to run over the victim, who was on the floor, before pushing it outside the lift, the Liverpool Echo reports.

Kirkby then went back to kicking, punching, and stamping on her helpless friend and hitting her with a piece of wood, seemingly unaware that the doors of the lift had closed and it had moved off with her child inside. The 36-year-old appeared at Liverpool Crown Court for sentencing on Friday, April 29, where she was jailed for 12 months.

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CCTV footage of the attack was played to the court at an earlier hearing and Judge Louise Brandon said "once you have seen that footage you do not forget it.” At the time of the assault, Kirby was the subject of a 13 month suspended sentence - imposed by the same judge - for a racially aggravated assault on a taxi driver.

Her barrister Michael Bagley said that she had been making good progress under that order but this offence had “a ruinous” affect on that. Kirby, of Alexander House, Sandy Road, Seaforth, had pleaded guilty to assault by beating and admitting being in breach of the suspended sentence imposed on September 4, 2020.

Iain Criddle, prosecuting, told the court that the attack happened on May 18 last year after Kirby and her friend, who lived in the same block, had spent three hours out that afternoon drinking. They went back to the victim’s flat and an argument