Top London dance DJ and wife left their children alone in hotel while they went on holiday booze session

The couple left their children alone at the Beachcombers Hotel in Grouville
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A London couple ended up in court after leaving their two young children sleeping in a hotel to go on a holiday drinking session into the early hours.

Police became suspicious when they saw the brake lights on the couple’s car “flashing intermittently” as they drove through Saint Helier, the capital of the island of Jersey, at 2.45am on Monday.

The 28-year-old man driving was found to be almost three times over the alcohol limit, the island’s magistrates’ court heard.

Police legal adviser Lawrence O’Donnell said that when the husband and his wife were questioned it became clear their two daughters, aged five and eight, had been left unaccompanied at the Beachcombers Hotel in the seaside town of Grouville.

They were later found asleep by officers on a sofa-bed in the family’s hotel room. The court heard the eight-year-old had been left with a phone and told to use it in case of any problems.

The husband is a top dance music DJ from London and is a regular performer at some of the biggest clubs around the world.

He had gone clubbing on Saturday night, leaving his wife and daughters asleep at the hotel.

The couple’s lawyer, Michael Haines, said it was the husband — who cannot be named for legal reasons — who wanted to go out for a drink in the early hours of Monday and managed to persuade his wife to go with him.

Mr O’Donnell told the court the family had flown to the Channel island for a week’s holiday and had stayed in their room until 1.10am before going out for a drink.

The two youngsters were taken into care by the island’s children’s service until the court hearing, at which their father pleaded guilty to drink-driving.

He and his wife, 30, from Stratford, both admitted recklessly exposing children to a risk of harm and were banned from the island for three years.

The father was also sentenced to 100 hours of community service and banned from driving for two years — although this will apply only in Jersey.

The court was told that authorities in Newham would oversee the community service order and also carry out an assessment of the conditions of their £425,000 terrace home.

Mr Haines said the husband was a first-time offender who works part-time. The family are understood to have arrived back in London last night.

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