A mother-of-five is warning parents to beware of stray security tags after a two inch pin pierced her daughter's foot at an Oxford store.

George McFadden, nine, of Balfour Road was leaving Wilkinson's in Cowley when she suffered a pain in her big toe as she walked out through the security barriers.

Initially she feared she had stepped on broken glass but when staff lifted up her foot they saw a two-inch long security pin had pierced her shoe and stuck in her toe.

She said: "I was hopping up and down and shouted to my mum I had glass in my foot.

"They got me to sit down on a chair and put my leg up and saw a security tag stuck into my big toe.

"We couldn't pull it out until the ambulance came and it was really, really sore.

"It was really painful I couldn't take my shoe off until the pin came out. There was a hole in my toe and blood.

"It was quite sore for days and I was limping around. When they took it out it was a pin about two inches long."

Her mother Carmel Ryan, 43, has visited a solicitors for advice.

She said: "My worry is other shops and parents need to know how dangerous these security pins can be.

"There are often little kids and elderly people in Wilkinson's and these pins are really dangerous if they are around lying on the floor.

"They should put stickers in the shop windows warning shoppers.

"It may be a one off but how many other thousands of these tags are used?"

Ms Ryan said the staff were helpful and one person brought her daughter a bar of chocolate but she was asked to walk home and no one has sent an apology.

A spokesman for Wilkinson's said its staff acted in the correct manner.

Communications manager Dave Jones said: "As soon as we were made aware of the incident we administered first aid and as a precaution alerted paramedics who attended the store and treated the customer.

"After carrying out an investigation into the incident it would appear that this kind of situation is very rare indeed.

"We are satisfied that our store health and safety procedures are adequate to prevent a recurrence in the future."