A boy told a court how a HIV positive woman pricked him with a needle containing her body fluids after he flushed her drugs stash down the toilet.

Jacqueline O'Neil was previously found guilty of culpably and recklessly jabbing the 12-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, with the uncapped needle at her home in Dundee.

On Monday, Dundee Sheriff Court heard the boy had turned up at O'Neil's address with one of her relatives.

He told the court the 32-year-old was clearly under the influence of drugs and was surrounded by drugs paraphernalia when he found her in the living room with a syringe stuck in her leg.

O'Neil, giving evidence herself, admitted she had taken heroin but claimed the boy had "fabricated" the circumstances leading up to him being pricked and branded him a "liar".

Giving evidence through a CCTV link, the boy said he had taken a foil wrap containing heroin and had flushed it down the toilet.

He said: "She tried to slap it out of my hand.

"There was a needle sitting on a pillowcase and when I came back in she started waving at me. It hit me on the hand."

The boy said it had gone in so deep he had to physically extract it himself before leaving.

O'Neil claimed she had been trying to protect the boy when he was struck by the needle.

In her version of events, O'Neil claimed the youngster had been handed the needle by another adult and was trying to take it from him when he was stuck.

Sheriff Lorna Drummond QC ruled the boy's version was true and said O'Neil was "not credible".

The court heard the victim had suffered no ill-effects as a result of the incident.

O'Neil pleaded guilty on indictment to a charge of culpable and reckless conduct and a further charge of assault.

The sheriff deferred sentence until later this month for social work background reports and released O'Neil on bail in the meantime.

She told the accused: "These are very serious matters, given the risk you put a 12-year-old boy into."