Messages sending as iMessage to ex iphone user

I was wondering if anyone can help. When I got my Iphone 4 I gave my 3gs to my mum. She used my account for the app store and when iOS5 came out she got her own account to use with iMessage, find my friends ect. My mum has now moved to an Android phone and is using her iphone as an ipod and to play games with wifi.
I've removed the iphone 3gs from the relevant accounts as I've seen there are problems with iMessage. I've turned off iMessage from my mums phone and removed her apple id from her phone, but when I message her from my phone it still insists on trying to send as an iMessage and instead of sending as a text message after so long, she just never receives it so I have to change it to a text message by holding the message and pressing "send as text". After doing this, things are fine for a while, but then after a few hours it will start trying to send iMessages to her again.
This is driving us both insane, and I've exhausted all my options. Does anyone have any idea what I can do to stop this? and why have apple made it so difficult to do? People do have freedom of choice to move to other phones after all.
I had a crappy experience at an apple store last week and am starting to get disillusioned with the who apple machine that I used to be such a fan of
Any help appreciated.
Sort it out apple!
Rachel

have you tried removing her from your contact and then readding her number?

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