A BOOZED up mum left her kids home alone to give her pal a lift – but ended up covering herself in GREASE trying to escape cops.
Magen Hendry, 28, was chased by cops after the spouted her black Audi A9 driving dangerously at 3am in Stockton, County Durham, in October 2019.
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The mum-of-two left her front door ajar and her kids asleep in bed after agreeing to drive a friend home drunk.
Teesside Crown Court heard that she was seen driving with no lights on and speeding through two sets of red lights.
Police initially lost sight of the car, before picking it up in an abandoned car park on CCTV with Hendry crouching behind a wall.
She had covered herself in “anti-vandal” grease in an attempt to camouflage herself from cops, and her feet were bleeding.
Prosecutor Uzma Khan told the court that Hendry made a run for it, but was arrested after a short chase.
She told officers that she had been decorating at home with a friend, when she agreed to give her a lift home.
Hendry added: “I wouldn’t say it was dangerous driving but by the time I went through the red lights it was too late to stop.”
Police found Hendry’s eldest child at home crying for her mum, with the youngest also crying.
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Ms Khan added: “She had woken up, realised that her mother was not present.
“She’d got upset, she was crying and when the police arrived the youngest child was also crying.”
Hendry pleaded guilty to two counts of child neglect and one count of dangerous driving.
Tabitha Buck, defending, said that social services had been involved since the incident and that a probation report found that Hendry had resorted to alcohol to cope with a crisis in her life.
Judge Howard Crowson handed Hendry a two-year supervision order and an 18-month driving ban.
He told the mum that she had been “careless about the welfare of your children and of other drivers on the road.”
Hendry told the judge that there is no school bus and that a taxi to get her children to school was £7 each way.
But the judge warned her that if she drove whilst banned, she could end up with a prison sentence.
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