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Shocking CCTV footage captured a man attacking a young boy at a park - before being battered by the child's angry mother.

Nine-year-old Xiao Bao got into a fight with another boy, Hao Hao, while playing outside.

Hao, also nine, ran home in tears and told his father, Ruan Feng, 41, about the brawl, who decided to sort the matter out himself.

Feng went to the park where he was filmed beating Xiao before picking him up and throwing him onto a wall.

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The horrifying video shows him then push the child into a pond in Shiyan, in central China’s Hubei province.

As the boy is standing there bemused in the water, the footage then captures his mother, Xiao Tan, 38, jump to her son's defence.

Wearing an orange jacket, she hits him with a plank that breaks into pieces.

But, after the man fought back, she called the police and Feng was arrested.

After officers watched the footage, he was fined £50 and ordered to spend 15 days in jail for the attack on the boy.