Woman gets 18 months for bridge jump with child

A WOMAN who tried to kill herself and her child by jumping 100ft from a bridge was yesterday sentenced to 18 months in prison.

Angela Schumann, 28, of Leeds, England, plunged from the Humber Bridge with her daughter, Lorraine Tumalan-Schumann, in June last year.

At the time of the incident the child was just three days short of her second birthday.