Trail goes cold in UK abandoned babies mystery as investigation stalls

TWO years after a newborn baby was found abandoned on a freezing winter's night, London police look set to shelve their investigation despite having discovered that she is the sibling of two other babies found in similar circumstances.

- AFP

Hospital staff named the little girl Elsa, after the character in the Disney film “Frozen”. All three children survived.

Elsa is believed to have been less than an hour old when she was discovered in a shopping bag on a bleak pathway near a busy east London road on January 18, 2024.

Her siblings were abandoned nearby in similar circumstances in 2017 and 2019.

The tragic mystery, combined with the fear that the mother may be being held captive somewhere, has shaken locals and cast a shadow over the areas of Plaistow and East Ham where the babies were discovered.

In a shocking development last June, police revealed that DNA testing had shown that all three children have the same parents.

They warned that they could not “discount” the possibility of a fourth child in the future who “may not be so fortunate as Elsa and her siblings”.