An alcoholic mother-of-eight who starved her four-year-old son to death and left his body in a cot for nearly two years has been jailed for 15 years.

An alcoholic mother of eight who starved her four-year-old son to death threatened to kill her other children, a British judge who sentenced her to 15 years in prison has heard.

The mother of a four-year-old boy whose body was left in a cot for two years after she let him starve to death will be sentenced today.