A couple who took their four-month-old son with them when they went on a seven-hour drinking spree have been named after a journalist challenged an anonymity order.

Magistrates at Mansfield made an order under section 39 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 prohibiting the publication of anything which would identify the baby when Mark Tyler and his wife Petra first appeared in court in November and admitted being drunk in charge of a child under the age of seven.

But when they appeared in court again on 4 December, Press Association East Midlands reporter Theo Usherwood challenged the order, arguing that it served only to protect the parents from publicity.