A woman who abandoned an eight-month-old child in a railway station toilet has been sentenced to four months in jail.

Lisa Randall, 26, left the boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, strapped in a buggy in a women's toilet cubicle at Bristol Temple Meads last year.

Randall then returned home to Paignton, south Devon, where she was later arrested by police.

The baby was found 20 minutes later by a cleaner and police tracked down Randall through items left in the baby's luggage.

At an earlier hearing, magistrates heard that Randall admitted leaving the baby but "showed no remorse".

She claimed the boy was not in danger when she left him in a public toilet because it "was busy and warm and he was likely to be found and cared for".

After a one-day trial, she was convicted of unlawfully abandoning a child on November 14 in a manner likely to cause unnecessary suffering.

Magistrates in Torquay yesterday gave her the custodial sentence she had been warned to expect. She told the court: "I did make a decision to abandon him but I would never have put him in harm's way."

After the child was found, he was taken to the British Transport Police office at the station.