Man who punched & broke his mother's tooth will have his own tooth broken alongside 2,400 lashes

A Saudi man who admitted knocking a tooth out of his mother's mouth after punching her has been told he will have the same tooth broken as punishment.The unnamed man was also sentenced to five years in jail and 2,400 lashes to be given out at a rate of 40 every 10 days in a local marketplace.

The man, in his 30s, was arrested after his mother contacted the police asking them to rescue her after the attack.While his mother was taken to hospital, police took the son before the courts, according to the Saudi paper Okaz.

The judge, Turki Al Qarni, issued the ruling after a medical report showed the son was mentally stable, and had not taken drugs or drunk alcohol.The ruling is based on a verse from the Koran which reads: 'And We ordained therein for them: A life for a life, an eye for an eye, a nose for a nose, an ear for an ear, a tooth for a tooth'. Source