A Bay woman sent to prison after neglecting her 82-year-old mother has been released on parole after serving a third of her prison sentence.
Joanne Quinn, 51, who was released eight days ago, was sentenced to two and a half years jail in May last year after she was found guilty of failing to provide the necessaries of life to her mother, Maureen.
Napier medical staff discovered the mother-of-eight in her Marewa home on November 15, 2011, embedded in a couch and blanket with festering leg wounds.
She died six weeks after being admitted to hospital from bronchial pneumonia.
During the trial Crown prosecutor Steve Manning said Quinn's mother was essentially "bound" to the couch and had a severely ulcerated and swollen leg and covered in rotten skin when medical staff and paramedics found her in a "medically risky environment".
It was revealed she lived at the family home with her son and relied on Maureen Quinn's pension for an income.
