A FURIOUS mother hit a teenage boy in the face with a brick in a bust-up at a birthday party, a court heard yesterday.

Samantha Firth-Corner, 43, denies assault causing actual bodily harm on the grounds she was defending herself or her son.

Mrs Firth-Corner had gone to collect her daughter from a friend's 16th birthday party when she became embroiled in a row with a youth who was in the same year at school.

Giving evidence at Teesside Crown Court, the boy told how she arrived at the party in Bedale, North Yorkshire, with her two sons and dog and accused him of smoking legal highs with her two youngest children.

The boy, who said he had drunk eight cans of cider at the party even though he was only 15 at the time, said: "I was drunk but I can remember a lot, put it that way.

"She arrived at the party at about 10pm to collect her daughter but she started arguing with me.

"It was about legal highs which me and her son and daughter used to smoke, which she thought put a bad reputation on me, I think she was angry at the fact I was doing it with her daughter and son.

"My mum was at the party and she told my mum that I was a waste of space because of the legal highs.

"I was taken into the toilet by some friends to get me out of the way but I could hear arguing going on outside the door. They left after all the shouting had ended."

A further argument started in the garden, and the victim was persuaded to go outside by a friend who said that Firth-Corner wanted to talk to him.

The boy said: "She was standing in the front garden and I walked over to her her and asked her: "What is your problem?"

"She had her arms behind her back but then she stepped forward and hit me in the face with a brick. I put my hands up to my face and started to cry. As I took my hands away two pieces of my teeth fell away into my hands.

"My friend rang the police and they came quite quickly. I was taken to hospital that night and then went to the dentists the next day. I'm still have treatment to my teeth."

The court heard that Firth-Corner, handed herself in to police the following day, May 27 last year.

Another witness who was at the party, told the court yesterday that he saw Firth-Corner with a brick or stone which was the size of an A4 piece of paper.

"I didn't believe she would use that," he said. "I believed it was just too out-there and ridiculous to be considered - to hit a child with a stone that size."

The trial continues.