22-year-old son attempts to rape mother: Report

LONDON: In a horrific incident, a 22-year -old man in Britain has allegedly attempted to rape his mother and gouged out her eyes, just two hours after police visited their home over a "domestic incident", a media report said.

The 53-year-old victim was left blinded by the attack and her son has been arrested by the police only after he ran naked from his home and started jumping into moving cars, the 'Daily Mail' reported.

"A 22-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted rape and grievous bodily harm and transferred to a secure unit," a Thames Valley Police spokesman said.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission has launched an investigation into the case after it emerged that police officers had visited the home two hours previously over a "domestic incident", but left after 30 minutes.

According to neighbours, trouble started when the man, who lived with his mother, a nurse, and teenage sister at their four-bedroom home in Slough, Berkshire, began shouting and throwing objects out of a first-floor window.

A computer and television set were hurled on to the front garden before police were called in. The cops spent half-an-hour with them before leaving, the report said.

Two hours later, the man ran out of his home naked and jumped into the side of a neighbour's car while he was turning out of his drive. He then stopped another car before jumping on the bonnet and hitting the windscreen.

Witnesses say he jumped off the car and ran into the path of another, which hit him, throwing him up on to the windscreen and hurling him to the side of the road. Police and an ambulance arrived to treat him and were alerted to mother in the house, the report said.

Officers later found that she had severe eye injuries and feared that she may have been sexually assaulted.