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.

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.

A mother of eight has been found guilty of killing her four-year-old son by starving him to death.