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A four-week-old baby died after his mother took him to a nightclub and drunkenly passed out on top of him, a court has heard.

Marina Tilby, 26, was seen with the child at a nightclub in northern Wales on the early hours of March 31.

She was reportedly throwing him in the air and catching him, before taking him to a caravan with two men she had met.

One of the men offered her a double bed, where she put the child down and lay next to him.

The next morning, he was found unresponsive.

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Tilby admitted willful neglect and was jailed for two years and four months on Friday, according to the BBC.

Judge Paul Thomas said the incident was a "dreadful case of maternal selfishness".

"It is a mother's responsibility, a mother's duty and her natural instinct to put the care and safety of her four-week-old child above all else," he said.

"You completely ignored that duty so you could get extremely drunk on a night-out."

The child, Darian, suffered a heart attack and died in hospital.