A HEARTBROKEN mum has spoken of her anguish after shopping her son to the police.

Debbie Taylor searched the streets to find 18-year-old Callum after he told her he had attacked his former girlfriend.

“I rang 999 straightaway and told them where to find him,” said the 39-year-old of Plumley Gardens.

“He’d done something terrible.”

Callum had rung his mum to confess that he had assaulted his former girlfriend who was 16.

His mum found him before the police but officers initially didn’t realise who she was.

“I was pepper sprayed in both eyes,” said Mrs Taylor. “But I managed to get Callum’s right arm behind his back and he was cuffed.

“As a mum, it’s a horrible thing to have to do but the right thing.”

Callum was jailed for five years nine months at Liverpool Crown Court last week and given an indefinite restraining order to stay away from his victim.

He pleaded guilty to wounding with intent and three offences of criminal damage.

His mum says she is now receiving threats.

“I’m scared to go out,” she said. “It is not my fault what he’s done.

“You like to think you brought your kids up to know right from wrong but at a certain point in a child’s life they grow up. What they do is in their own hands.”

She has vowed to visit her son in prison.

“I am disappointed and heartbroken,” she added: “He has done wrong but he is my son, my flesh and blood. I’ll never turn my back on him.

“I presume he will be offered anger management.

“He is lovely, a really nice lad with a great sense of humour.

“I’d like people to realise as his mum how difficult it was to do the right thing that night.”