A woman who tried to throw herself and her autistic son under the wheels of a moving freight train at a railway station has been jailed for three years.
A court heard Andrea Reid, 53, had been involved in legal proceedings with her ex-husband over his custody which 'became an obsession'. Reid tried to drag her son, 20, into the path of the train travelling at 45mph as they stood together on a platform at Handforth railway station, near Wilmslow in Cheshire.
The court heard she feared his father was 'winning' his bid to have contact with him. Her son, a judge was told, realised the danger when the train driver sounded his horn and pulled his mother to safety just a split second before the locomotive roared past them.
