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A single mother left her four young children including two babies home alone while she went on a 24-hour drink and drugs binge, a court heard. Worried neighbours contacted police after seeing the woman's eldest child, a four-year-old girl, hanging out of a window crying: 'Where's mummy?' The 22-year-old mother drank a bottle of wine and snorted cocaine with friends after putting her daughters, aged three and four, and their brothers, aged one and three months, to bed. But soon afterwards she left the children to fend for themselves and went out to carry on drinking at a series of house parties and bars, not returning until 10.30pm the following day. Police alerted by neighbours found the house littered with empty beer cans and bottles and a scene of 'filth and disorder' inside. They discovered the one-year-old boy in a urine-soaked cot in a bedroom on his own. His younger brother was found crying in a travel cot, with no blankets, and with a soiled nappy. He had dried milk and sick over his clothing and was grey, docile and dehydrated. The three-year-old girl had managed to dress herself, while her older sister, who was the most distressed, had pushed chairs up against kitchen cupboards to try to reach some food because she was so hungry. There were also children's footprints in baby milk powder on the floor where the oldest child had tried to mix a bottle feed for her younger brother.