Drunk mum left kids home alone – and ended up smeared in grease in police chase

dailystar.co.uk:

over the legal limit, tried to give police the slip by covering herself in grease.Magen Hendry left her front door ajar when she left her home in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, at around 3am on October 25, 2019.Her children – one of primary school age and the other a little younger – are believed to have been asleep when she left.Teesside Crown Court has heard how police spotted Hendry's black Audi A9 being driven dangerously.Prosecutor Uzma Khan said that the car had no lights on and was seen going through two sets of red lights.Ms Khan said that police following Hendry lost sight of her Audi, before it was picked up by CCTV abandoned in a car park on Durham Road.

Hendry was then spotted crouching behind a nearby wall.She had covered herself in some sort of grease - thought to be anti-vandal grease - in a bid to hide from police and her bare feet were bleeding, reports Teesside Live.Ms 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, adding: "I wouldn't say it was dangerous driving but by the time I went through the red lights it was too late to stop."When Hendy was taken into custody by police she confessed she had left her children unattended at home.

Police found Hendry's eldest child at home crying for her mother. "She had woken up, realised that her mother was not present.