Student, 19, sliced off his own penis after stabbing his mother

A teenager stabbed his mother before cutting off his own penis after he was believed to have taken party drug mephedrone, commonly known as meow meow.

The 19-year-old student hacked at his private parts with a knife after attacking his mother at their family home, it was claimed.

He was discovered hanging out of a bedroom window, blood gushing from his groin after his terrified mother called emergency services to the house in Haywards Heath, West Sussex.

Drug: A teenager believed to have taken mephedrone, or meow meow, stabbed his mother before cutting off his own penis

Both he and his 46-year-old mother, neither of whom have been named, were rushed to hospital by ambulance with injuries described as life threatening after the attack on December 29, according to the Mirror.