An incredible mum who was homeless for years before going to prison and being stabbed has heroically turned her life around. Emily Gibbs, 29, has now settled down in a new home with her daughter, years after losing custody of her first child.

In 2016, when she was 23, Emily lost custody of her five-year-old son and was kicked out of her home.

She was then jailed for attacking two women during a drunken brawl in McDonald’s, but now the Faversham mum-of-two has turned things around, according to KentOnline.

When she unexpectedly became pregnant with her daughter Billie, now four, Emily was determined for her new child not to suffer for her mistakes and knew she had to be there for her.

However, it has not all been easy, with the pair moving from one different temporary home to another.

At one point they were on the verge of being homeless after a long-awaited offer of a permanent home was withdrawn by Hyde Housing when it learned of Emily’s chequered past.

But following media coverage of their struggle, West Kent Housing Association reached out to the mum to say it had a flat for them.

Now settled in at their new home, Emily, 29, said: “It’s such a relief to have found somewhere permanent, I can barely describe it – it just hasn’t sunk in yet.

“At the minute I still feel like I’m in a bit of a daydream. I’m floating around thinking ‘is this real or am I going to get a call from the council telling us we have to move again?’

“Billie’s lived in eight homes before this one, but here she’s just flourishing already, having her own space and her own room.

“She’s a completely different child in the space of a week.”

In 2016 Emily had been evicted from her home for anti-social behaviour and lost custody of her son, before finding herself in prison after a drunken attack sparked by a row over queue-jumping inside Canterbury’s McDonalds.

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After her arrest, she told police: “I’m as guilty as sin. Drinking just sends me into someone I don’t even know who I am.” She later said she was “ashamed” of her nine-month sentence and went into a “major depression” when she couldn’t be there for her son.

She also explained how she ended up being stabbed, saying: “While inside I got stabbed in the leg because I wasn’t sexually attracted to another girl who was obviously into me.

“I laughed out of awkwardness and said ‘sorry love I don’t swing that way’.

“The next thing I know I have a pen jabbed into my leg. Unfortunately, she thought I was taking the mick out of her and stabbed me.”

After she was released, Emily worked three jobs to support herself, working at Iceland in the day, a pub in the evening and a nightclub at weekends.

She had been told she was infertile after having her son at 17. “I thought I wasn’t meant to be a mum, that this was all my life could be,” she said. “I went back to being my destructive self and then I went to prison.

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“I came out of prison and then I fell pregnant with Billie after seeing someone for a matter of weeks.”

Emily says she left Billie’s father and carried on being homeless with her daughter.

“Then this place popped up after everything we have been through,” she said. “After two years of emergency accommodation and a year of sofa surfing, we have finally got our fresh start.”

She said she “sobbed” when she saw how happy Billie was when they were able to have a more settled home life, and as her daughter starts school this September, Emily is planning to continue the training to be a veterinary nurse that she was forced to leave when she fell pregnant as a teenager.

She still sees her son, who is now 12 and lives with his father.

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