Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy noticeA woman who had been looking after a four-year-old girl left the child home alone whilst she went on a nine hour drinking binge. Police and firefighters alerted by the leak caused by a tap left running forced their way into the flat. "This child was left alone for nine hours and she could have got out as the door was unlocked. The incident occurred on January 29 last year after Bell went to see 33-year old Colette Smith. "The defendant accepted what she had done - that she had left the little girl and then become intoxicated.

Source: Daily Mirror March 29, 2021 11:14 UTC