A young mother allowed her three-year-old son to smoke, a court heard yesterday.
The boy was apparently familiar with cigarettes and knew how to use a lighter and inhale.
He was allowed to smoke in his bedroom and around the house, and was only stopped when a family friend used her mobile phone to film him and alerted social workers.
Yesterday the boy?s mother Kelly Marie Pocock, 24, was given a 40-week jail sentence ? but it was suspended for two years after a judge said her children had suffered enough.
