How the CHEAT stole Christmas

Nicole Hudson, 27, Huddersfield

Clicking my phone on, I checked the time once again.

Already 7pm, I sighed.

There was still no sign of my boyfriend Kyle, then 21.

I’d imagined by now, we’d be snuggled up together in front of a Christmas film.

Our son Riley’s stocking stuffed to the brim.

Yet, that Christmas Eve, in 2012, Kyle had gone to a casino. Leaving me home alone with Riley, then 2.

Riley was the perfect age to get excited about Santa.

‘I want a proper family Christmas,’ I’d told Kyle.

So he’d promised to be back to help me work