A DRUNKEN mum left her young sons home alone to go clubbing.

Bolton Crown Court heard how, just before 5am, police who had been alerted by a concerned neighbour, found Kylie Taylor’s two year-old son asleep on the living room sofa dressed only in a nappy.

His four-year-old brother was also asleep in a bedroom with no sheet or duvet cover. The pillow and duvet were unclean and dirty nappies littered the floor of the Cheriton Drive, Breightmet, home.

Neil Fryman, prosecuting, told how 31-year-old Taylor had banged on a neighbour’s door, in a distressed state, at just after 3am on May 8 2017 and asked them to call a taxi.

The taxi arrived but the neighbour decided to phone police.

“They were concerned that the defendant was out at the time and the children might be home alone,” said Mr Fryman.

Police tracked Taylor down to McCauley’s nightclub in Bradshawgate just before 4am.

“She was described as intoxicated and somewhat unhelpful,” said Mr Fryman.

Taylor claimed the children were with her partner or at his mother’s home in Farnworth, but checks revealed they were not.

Officers went to Cheriton Drive, where the door was unlocked, and found the children asleep.

There were broken objects on the floor, no food in the kitchen and a toilet was overflowing.

Five minutes later Taylor’s partner, Dylan Fahy, arrived at the property and said he had left Taylor looking after the children.

Both parents were arrested but charges against Fahy were not proceeded with and allowed to lie on file.

Taylor pleaded guilty to child neglect.

She told police that she and Fahy had an argument and she had left the house thinking he was upstairs. She claimed that the house was in a state because she had had had an abortion only a week earlier.

Virginia Hayton, defending, told the court that the children no longer live with Taylor, although she hopes to be reunited with them one day, and her relationship with Fahy is over.

Miss Hayton added that the criminal proceedings against her have been “a real wake up call”. She said that Taylor no longer drinks or takes illegal drugs. “Her main focus has been securing the welfare of the children,” she said.

“She wants to show the children she can be a good mother.

“She is remorseful. She knows she let the children down on this occasion. Thankfully, there was no physical harm.”

Judge Graeme Smith sentenced Taylor to a community order for 12 months with conditions that she undertakes 60 hours of unpaid work and participates in 15 days of rehabilitation activities.

He told her: “Being a parent is an enormous responsibility. Very small areas of neglect can lead to devastating consequences.

“Having failed to carry out the responsibility of being a parent, you have lost that privilege.”

He added that although it was a “reckless and foolish action” to go out without checking on the welfare of the children, they had not been physically harmed.