A nanny who poisoned a two-year-old boy with salt has been sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Mother-of-two Yana Deinesh, 25, deliberately put an enormous amount of salt into the boy's porridge and forced him to eat the poisonous meal.

The incident occurred during lunch in the village of Kholmogory in north-western Russia's Arkhangelsk Oblast region.

During the lunch the boy was moody and the nanny decided to punish him for that, reports say.

Mother-of-two Yana Deinesh, 25, with her head bowed during her sentencing for the death of a boy by deliberately feeding him salt

She grabbed a pack of salt and poured almost the half of it into the child's porridge.

Deinesh then mixed the salt with the meal and forcibly fed the toddler.

Soon afterwards, the boy felt sick and lost consciousness. He was rushed in the intensive care in a critical condition.

Doctors did everything possible to save the child's life but despite all the efforts he died from salt poisoning.

Deinesh was arrested and confessed in full. During interrogations it is believed that she said that 'she didn't want the boy to die'

Investigators say the victim was forced to down at least 50 grams of salt in one sitting.

As a result, the dose of salt in the boy's body exceeded the norm by 60 times and killed him.

Deinesh was arrested and confessed in full. During interrogations she said that 'she didn't want the boy to die'.

Arkhangelsk Regional Court charged Yana Deinesh with murder and sentenced her to 14 years in prison

Prosecutor Vadim Kuchin said to local media: 'Even an adult is not able to eat such an amount of salt willingly.

'The victim was forced to eat it and the accused fed him deliberately.

'We treated the case as murder and the court agreed with us.'

Arkhangelsk Regional Court charged Yana Deinesh with murder and sentenced her to 14 years in prison.