Drunk in charge of a child at the Tube station

A mother was so drunk she repeatedly tipped her pram over on a Tube escalator in front of shocked passengers, a court heard. Dierdre O’Riordan, 35, repeatedly tried to put the buggy on the moving staircase but it toppled over and the baby fell out. O’Riordan, from Stratford-upon-Avon, had spent the evening drinking with a friend in north London while her partner attended a work do, Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard. She admitted being drunk in charge of her child in…

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