A MUM was convicted of neglect after leaving her two-year-old son home alone for the weekend while she went to stay with her boyfriend, today.

Lincoln Crown Court had heard that Kelly Tollerton, 22, left the two-year-old penned into the kitchen of her flat, which had later flooded.

He was found by police in a dirty vest and pants, sobbing for help, the jury heard.

Tollerton was convicted of one count of child cruelty by way of neglect, one of child cruelty by way of abandonment and one of perverting the course of justice.

Squalor ... boy was left home alone

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Mr Recorder William Harbage QC told Tollerton she faced a custodial sentence.

He said: "You have been convicted on the clearest possible evidence of leaving your two-and-a-half-year-old son home alone while you went to stay for the weekend with your partner.

"This was the culmination of a period of wilful neglect of him and, on the evidence, your parenting of this child was totally inadequate.

"These are very serious matters and a custodial sentence, a prison sentence, is highly likely."