Sydney dad fined for leaving 3yo in car

A man who left his three-year-old son alone in a car and another toddler unsupervised at home while he went to the pub on a blistering hot day has been fined in a Sydney court.

Police had to forcefully open the car, which was parked on the Hume Highway at Yagoona, to rescue the boy on September 23.

The 41-year-old man was fined $1300 at the Bankstown Local Court on Wednesday after pleading guilty to neglecting a child in his care, leaving a child in a vehicle causing emotional distress and resisting arrest.