Gran, 37, jailed for two years after constantly pestering parents for cash leaving them ‘prisoners in their own home’

A GRANDMOTHER in her thirties was locked up for two years after she waged a campaign of misery - against her own parents.

Toni Flynn, 37, left Pauline and Anthony Flynn, both in their 50s, feeling ''like prisoners in their own home'' after she hounded them for money for drink and drugs.

During one incident Flynn burst into the family home, slapped and pushed over her mother who has cancer.

She then spat at her father whilst he was lying ill in bed before throwing an ornament at him.

When the victims threatened to call 999 she mocked them saying: “Well call the police then - they won’t be here for ages.”

Last month jobless Flynn from Monsall, near Manchester faced jail after she admitted assaulting her parents, but she was let go because she promised to behave as her daughter, 19, had just given birth.

She was barred from contacting her parents under the terms of a restraining order, but within three days she was back at the victims' home badgering them for more money for booze.

She was arrested near the house soon after.

In a statement her mother said Flynn had no respect for authority and had ignored the conditions imposed on her by the restraining order.

It read: "Since she has been remanded in custody, I have been able to relax, as I used to feel like a prisoner in my own home."

At Manchester Crown Court Flynn wept and sighed loudly as she was brought back before the same judge who had previously agreed to impose a 12 month community order on the advice of a probation officer.

As well as being sent to jail she was banned from contacting her parents for five years.

Judge Anthony Cross QC said she had failed to take the opportunity that he had given her.

He said: ''You simply cannot be trusted. So the time is now for you to learn your lesson and you will learn that lesson in jail. You have previously been subjected to short sentences of imprisonment measured by weeks. This sentence will not be measured by weeks - but by years."