A terrified schoolgirl secretly used her iPad to film herself getting a savage beating from her drunken mother as she was berated for ''ruining'' her mums' night out.

The 11-year old girl had been left at home alone with her younger sister whilst her mother, 35, went clubbing until the early hours with friends.

But when the youngster rang her at 1am to find out where she was, the drunken mum flew into a rage and told her daughter “You’ve ruined my night - you better run when I get home.''

Fearing the worst, the child set up her iPad in her bedroom to record the mother when she arrived home in Shaw, near Oldham.

The 18 minute recording showed the woman pinning her daughter against a wall, throttling her until she could barely breathe and even using the stilettos on her high heeled shoes to scrape against the girl's legs.

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During the assault which took place in front of the younger child, the mother told the youngster: ''Don’t you ever disobey me again. You will never be a match for me. Do you think you’re cleverer than me? I will waste you.''

The terrified child was only able to escape after a family friend turned up at the door and she fled into the street barefoot dressed only in her pyjamas. A passerby found her bleeding from the nose and mouth and alerted police.

In interview the unnamed girl a keen horse rider told police the intervention of the family friend spared her from further violence and added: '‘I don’t think my mum would have stopped.'' It emerged she would regularly beaten three times a week.

At Minshull Street Crown Court, Manchester, the mother who cannot be named to protect the identity of the child wept as the harrowing footage of the assault was played. She admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm and cruelty to a child and was sentenced to two years jail suspended for 24 months. Both her children are now thought to be with foster parents.

The court heard the woman would routinely abuse her children and in one Christmas period in 2018 she left the youngsters alone in the house for hours or even overnight.

The assault took place in the early hours of January 6 last year after the mother went out with friends at 8pm the previous evening.

Prosecutor James Preece said: ''At 1am the girl noticed her mother hadn’t returned and she phoned her asking when she was coming home. But when she rang the defendant’s friend the defendant rang her back and said: ‘'You have ruined my night, you had better run when I get home’'.

“The girl thought when the defendant got home, she would hit her, so she set up her iPad in her bedroom to record a video. When the defendant came home in a taxi the footage shows the girl on the phone to someone saying: ‘she’s going to batter me just come please’.

''When the defendant did arrive, she was intoxicated and saying: ‘let me in there is a key on the shelf’. Eventually the defendant did find a key, came into the house and then said: ‘'you'd better run’.

“There was then an incident lasting around 18 minutes during which the defendant repeatedly assaulted her daughter, shouting at her, throwing things at her including a picture frame and a jewellery box, grabbing hold of her hair, punching her seven times, kicking her and battering her legs and shins and holding her against the wall.

''The defendant had high heels on which were scraping against her daughter's legs. She had both hands on her neck and the girl was struggling to breathe whilst the defendant was shouting ‘go on be sick you stupid little f..k’.

“There is a lot of shouting on the footage and the younger daughter was present throughout the incident. It only came to an end when the defendant’s friend arrived while she was distracted, the girl took the opportunity to get out of the house. She was then locked out by the defendant despite only wearing her pyjamas and having no shoes.

''She went out to the street corner and was helped by a passer-by who phoned the police who arrived and arrested the defendant.''

The girl suffered bruising, bleeding and a lump on the back of her head plus bleeding from her nose and mouth. There were marks on her arms and legs and also red marks on her neck.

In mitigation the woman's lawyer David Morton said: “The biggest punishment she could have was when her children were taken from her. Alcohol was clearly a feature but she has now reduced enormously what was usually an occasional consumption of alcohol. While she wasn’t a regular drinker when she did drink, she didn’t know when to stop.

“She is hugely remorseful for her behaviour.”

Passing sentence Judge Sophie McKone told the mother: ''You subjected your daughter to physical and emotional abuse and you were in the true sense of the word very cruel to her. You humiliated her, assaulted her and abandoned her and it culminated in early January with you assaulting her.

''Any right minded person who has seen that video will conclude that your behaviour towards her was violent and cruel in the true sense of the word. She had the foresight to record that she knew what was coming and she ran out of the house away from you. All this happened in the presence of your very young child aged just four at the time.

“It is really hard to comprehend how you thought it was appropriate to treat your daughter in that way. In my view you deserve an immediate custodial sentence but the one person who would really suffer from you going to prison is your daughter.

''I have read that it would have a detrimental effect on her and would increase the responsibility that she feels. The social worker feels if you were to receive a custodial sentence this would further your daughter’s feelings of guilt.”

The mother was also subject to a six-month curfew from 7pm to 7am and was ordered to complete 200 hours unpaid work.