Mother's terror as she finds children injecting themselves with needles

A terrified mother caught her two young girls injecting each other with potentially lethal used needles while playing doctors and nurses.

Three-year-old Savannah Murphy and Gypsey, five, were playing in the street with cousin Callum Chapman, five, when they found the syringes in dumped rubbish bags.

Mum Debra Chapman, from Hartlepool, took all three to hospital and is awaiting test results. They have been given hepatitis B injections.

Debra, 28, said: "Savannah had two stab marks on her right hand and one in her left leg. The first thing that went through my mind was that they might have caught Aids or TB."