Vienna - An Austrian court stopped a case of motherly love gone too far by fining a 73-year-old woman for calling her son up to 49 times per day, the daily Kleine Zeitung reported Thursday.

The court in the Southern Austrian town of Klagenfurt convicted and sentenced the woman to a fine of 360 euros (476 dollars) for stalking her grown son for two and a half years.

"I just wanted to talk to him," the newspaper quoted the mother as telling the judge.

The woman's persistent streak was also apparent in court, as she entreated the judge: "Please, your honour! Come on, acquit me. Don't be that way."

The verdict has yet to come into force. (dpa)