A MUM who destroyed evidence as her 15-year-old son was being investigated for attempted murder has not done her unpaid work because she has had another baby.

Hayley Upfold, 31, was ordered to 250 hours of community service when she was spared jail for perverting the course of justice.

Now the probation service has brought the case back before the court to ask for the order to be removed as Upfold, of Barnum Court, Rodbourne, can no longer complete the outstanding 206 hours.

But Judge Tim Mousley QC, sitting at Swindon Crown Court, said it would mean the only punishment she faced was the 43-and-a-half hours she had done.

And he said he wanted to know why she had done so little of the order, which is supposed to be completed in a year, in the nine months since it was imposed.

Adam Griffiths, for the probation service, said that the birth of her latest child made the order 'unworkable' and he could not explain why she could not do a curfew

Upfold, who was not present for the hearing, was put on an 18-month jail term suspended for two years and has been ordered to come back to court next month.

The judge said: "As a mother of a very young child, does that mean she can't do any other work?

"I think it needs further investigation and I think Miss Upfold should come to court as well.

"I am going to adjourn it. On the face of it there must be an alternative instead of just letting a suspended sentence run. I think the probation service should look at it again."

Upfold washed the blood stained clothes of the teenage knifeman and his mates after he came home and told her he had stabbed someone.

And when she was spoken to by the police she insisted Lewis Light, who has a 'pathalogical use of violence', had been at home on his PlayStation all evening.

But after hearing she is the sole carer for her two daughters and was capable of doing unpaid work Judge Mousley imposed the suspended sentence.

Light, who routinely carried a knife, had repeatedly stabbed a man at Wharf Green in the vicious attack January last year.

After plunging the blade into his victim's body seven times, leaving him close to death, he went home with a number of friends involved in the incident.

One of the young lads later told police what happened when they got to the house so it was clear Light's mum, knew what had taken place.

When police attended at about 1am they found the washing machine full of the clothing of the youths, who were kitted out in various different outfits.

She then wrote a statement to the police in which she effectively said Light had been in all night on the PlayStation.

Light was jailed for four-and-a-half years last August after admitting grievous bodily harm with intent after the attempted murder charge was dropped.

He was in a gang of up to 25 mates when he stabbed his victim causing massive loss of blood as well as a punctured lung, lacerated liver, and cracked vertebra.

Jailing him, and allowing him to be named, Recorder Richard Davison said: "You have shown little or no remorse for what you did.

"These offences were premeditated, you committed them to gain or maintain kudos, or notoriety.

"You said you would continue to fight anyone who challenges you. You appear to derive pleasure from violence."

Three teenagers, a girl aged 15 and two boys aged 14, were put on nine month referral orders at the youth court after admitting violent disorder.