A teenage mother has been locked up for three years for attacking a man with a saw.

Hayley Wood told police she hated Patrick McBride and he “made her blood boil”, Bradford Crown Court heard.

She said Mr McBride was lucky not to be dead after she “whacked him” with the saw.

Wood, who was 19 at the time, pleaded guilty to wounding Mr McBride, 48, with intent to cause him grievous bodily harm on February 20.

Prosecutor Claire Larton told the court today that Wood was living with Mr McBride’s nephew, Graham Dowling, in Cambridge Street, Great Horton, Bradford.

She blamed Mr McBride for stealing a £200 cheque from her.

Mr McBride was invited to a neighbour’s house and found Wood there.

She shouted: “You stole money from my baby” and attacked him with a small saw.

Miss Larton said Wood struck repeated blows, wounding Mr McBride on the head, neck and arms.

He told police that others present in the house laughed as he was attacked.

Wood followed him home, smashed a window and threatened to kill him.

Police found her hiding in the attic at her home. Her clothing was blood-stained and she was led off in handcuffs after being abusive to arresting officers.

Mr McBride needed 30 stitches to his head and was kept in hospital overnight.

In his victim personal statement, he said he was still on painkillers three months’ later.

Wood’s solicitor Tom Rushbrooke said she was still only 20. She had suffered a troubled and unstable upbringing, with no stability in her life.

She was the mother of a nine-month-old daughter and wanted to change a lifestyle that had included drugs and alcohol.

Judge John Potter told Wood it was an extremely serious offence.

He sentenced her to three years in a young offender institution.