A 70-year-old lollipop lady has told how a school run mum attacked her after telling her:?‘Don’t start on me, I’ll run over you’.

Jade O’Brien, 26, assaulted the lollipop lady after being asked her to move the car, because it was sticking out into the road, making it dangerous for children to cross.

O’Brien, from Oldham, had dumped her white Audi A3 near St Mary’s C of E Primary School in Moston, to drop off her son.

But, a court heard, when lollipop lady Mary Tomlinson-Harrison asked her to move it she flew into a rage.

She told Ms Tomlinson-Harrison to ‘shut up’, before taking her son inside at 9.20am.

When the young mum returned to her car she found the lollipop lady writing down the Audi’s licence plate number.

O’Brien then launched a foul-mouthed attack on the pensioner and began jabbing her repeatedly, Manchester magistrates heard.

Tess Kenyon, prosecuting, told the court: “The defendant said: ‘Don’t ******* start with me. I’m not in the mood and I’ll run you over.’

“The victim replied: ‘You will, will you?’. The defendant said again: ‘Don’t start with me’ whilst jabbing her finger into the shoulder of the lollipop lady.

“She then got back into her car and drove off at speed.”

O’Brien, of Barmouth Walk, Hollinwood, pleaded guilty to assault when she appeared before Manchester magistrates yesterday.

She was fined £400 and ordered to pay £50 compensation to Ms Tomlinson-Harrison. She must also pay £85 costs.

Rebecca Stanton, defending, told the court it was ‘a particularly unpleasant incident’ but said O’Brien had been ‘very stressed and late’.

She said: “She’s remorseful to say the very least. She was running particularly late and was very stressed.”

She added: “Miss O’Brien is a lady with significant difficulties herself.”

The court was told O’Brien had previously been sectioned under the Mental Health Act after attacking someone in November 2010, and her former boyfriend was now in prison.

Ms Tomlinson-Harrison, a former council worker who has been a lollipop lady since 2010, told the M.E.N she was ‘gobsmacked’ by O’Brien’s behaviour.

A charity volunteer, she usually works on the crossing at St Malachy’s RC Primary in Collyhurst, but was filling in for a colleague in Moston when she was attacked.

She said: “I can’t understand it. There was no need whatsoever for her to act like that. I only asked her to move her car.

“She just lost it completely, and used all sorts of language. She kept jabbing me in the shoulder.

“It was quite painful at the time. Everyone gets upset from time to time, but they don’t do that. I’m just sorry she felt the need to do what she did. ”