A MUM whose baby was left fighting for life after being violently shaken by a Barrhead brute has hit out at his three-year jail sentence.

Jordan Richardson, 24, was handed the prison term last week following his conviction for assaulting the toddler to his severe injury and danger of life.

However, the child’s distraught mum insists the thug, who is believed to be having a baby with a new partner, should be locked up for longer.

She told the Barrhead News: “He’s vile and my stomach turns at the thought of him.

“It’s time he was named and shamed for what he has done but I really don’t agree that he should be able to get out so soon.”

The mum, who can’t be named to protect the identity of the young victim, had left her son in Richardson’s care at a property in Glasgow when the attack took place on March 2, 2018.

Richardson and the tot were both sleeping when she went to work but, just before 10am, she noticed a series of missed calls on her phone.

“When I phoned back, I spoke to a paramedic and he told me that my son was unconscious and had apparently choked on a piece of sausage,” she said.

“I went to the hospital and I was thinking ‘he choked, why is he lying there unconscious? Why is he lying there with tubes up his nose, down his throat and all these nurses and doctors surrounding him?’

“Then it came out that the hospital were saying he had been violently shaken but Jordan was still denying it and saying he choked.”

The youngster, who was put into an induced coma, ended up spending two weeks in hospital.

Thankfully, he appears to have recovered well but his mum said doctors have warned her there could be issues as he grows.

Richardson was jailed at the High Court in Glasgow, with the mum admitting she is relieved the case is over.

She has branded the brute as “manipulative” and “dangerous” and told how the ordeal suffered by her son, who is now aged four, has also had an impact on her own health.

“It has affected me big time,” she said. “Since then, I’ve been on medication for anxiety and depression.

“I’ve come off my depression tablets recently because I’ve been feeling a bit better. He’s been found guilty and things can move forward.”