Unbelievable! Couple Forget Where they Put their Baby After a Night of Excessive Drinking (Photos)

In what will come across as a a most shocking tale of negligence, a couple has forgotten where they put their baby after a night of drinking.

 

 

The parents, Matthew Neil and Kim Smart-Neil, allegedly went on a 24-hour Christmas drinking binge and then forgot where they had left him.

 

The little boy, one-month-old Freddie Neil was found lying on the floor wedged between a wall and bed in his older brother's room and pronounced dead on arrival at hospital .

 

According to Mirror Online, the two parents were arrested and charged with neglect and manslaughter. But the CPS later decided to drop charges after deciding there was not enough evidence.

 

Details of the baby's shocking death have been revealed after a serious case review. It found out how his mum and alcoholic dad spent the 24 hours beforehand downing 'a large quantity of alcohol' in a pub and with friends at their home in Blackpool, Lancs.

 

The mother, aged 32, last remembered attending to Freddie around 5am and her husband, a local DJ, stayed up with the baby until around 6am when their friends left.

 

 Matthew Neil

 

An inquest heard that Neil, 34, who was 'extremely tired and intoxicated', remembered taking Freddie to bed but could not say how he came to be in their other son Alex's room.

 

He was woken around noon the following day - Boxing Day - by Alex crying at the stair gate with his nappy off and excrement on the floor.

 

Neil - who had turned down help for his alcoholism weeks earlier - changed Alex's nappy before noticing Freddie wasn't in his basket.

 

After searching the house, he then found him unresponsive and partially wrapped in blankets on the floor between a wall and bed in Alex's room but neither parent could say how he got there.

 

The father tried CPR but the baby was pronounced dead after being taken to Blackpool Victoria Hospital.

 

 

Kim Smart-Neil

 

 

Coroner Alan Wilson, who recorded an open verdict, heard that Freddie had bronchitis and it was impossible to say what exactly caused his death.

 

A pathologist said she believed his death was caused largely by unsafe sleeping arrangements.

 

Neil denied being drunk and said he remembered putting Freddie to bed in his Moses basket, but admitted he did not know how he ended up in a different room.

 

Speaking after the report findings, the dad said: "It was Christmas and we both had more than we should've, but neither of us was inebriated.

"I believe I had a fit. There's no way a four-week-old baby can make it from our room into Alex's room on his own. It's a sheer impossibility.

"One of us had to have moved him but when I have a fit I can't remember half an hour before or after.

"I can't remember taking him in there, so that's the most viable explanation. It's the most sensible one."

 

Neil, who was found to be twice the legal drink drive limit, and his partner were arrested on suspicion of neglect and manslaughter, but were released without charge in June.

 

The report by the Blackpool Safeguarding Children Board also found there was nothing authorities involved with Freddie's family could have done to prevent or predict his death.