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Nan, 80, hit teen with slipper to stop her partying – now she's going to prison

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An 80-year-old grandmother who locked her door and gave her granddaughter a slap with a slipper has been handed a four-year . Asiye Kaytan, hailing from Denizli in , had a heated argument with Asiye Vural, 18, when she attempted to leave the to join her friends on a night out.

The situation quickly escalated when Vural tried to push past her grandmother, who responded by striking her with a slipper. But in retaliation, Kaytan was hit on the head with her granddaughter's She recounted: "She wanted to go out for the night but I didn't agree and locked the door.

"I hit her on the hand with a slipper and she hit me on the head with her . She got scared when she saw I was bleeding and called an ambulance."

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However, after reported the incident in August last year as a potential act of violence, brought Vural in for questioning. She was released after the accepted that she had acted in self-defence.

And on February 25, judges at Turkey's 12th Criminal of First Instance found Kaytan guilty of false imprisonment and assault with a weapon. She was sentenced to four years and two months in jail, despite her age.

A shocked Kaytan exclaimed: "I'm going to prison aged 80? How will I live there? I'm disabled and I can barely walk. They're going to put me in jail for a pair of slippers? They were slippers, not a gun."

He granddaughter added: "I didn't want it to be like this. I didn't complain about her but there's been a public case." Kaytan has been released on bail while her case goes up to the court of appeal.

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Her lawyer Hasan Ozan Orpak said on Friday: "There's a verdict from the local court right now. We hope that this will change legally in the process of the appeal. Slippers have never been seen as a weapon before."

In other news, mule gran is so convinced she will walk free after more than a decade on in Indonesia she is, sources claim.

The British cocaine trafficker, 67, She has been held in Bali's hell-hole Kerobokan jail since 2013 for trying to smuggle £1.6million of cocaine into the country in her suitcase.

But new legislation means her death sentence could be converted into a life prison term as she has managed more than 10 years' good behaviour behind bars.

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