Patricia Amos said she tried to make her daughter go to school

Patricia Amos, of Banbury, Oxfordshire, is due to be sentenced on Tuesday for letting her daughter Jacqueline, 14, miss class almost every other day.

Amos, 45, was found guilty by Bicester magistrates in February.

She was previously jailed for 60 days in 2002 after failing to stop her other child, Emma, then 15, from truanting.

Written warnings

At the February hearing, Amos argued she made "every effort" to get Jacqueline to school.

But the prosecution said that despite repeated phone calls, home visits and written warnings, Amos had failed to give explanations for many of her daughter's absences.

The court heard the 14-year-old missed 31 out of 80 days at Banbury School between May and October 2003.

Jacqueline told the court most of the time she had missed school had been without her mother's knowledge, but this was rejected by magistrates.

Her older daughter, Emma, went on to win a top English prize after returning to lessons last year.

She has now left school and attends a further education college.