Search for mum of 3 abandoned babies narrowed down

Police focus on just 400 London homes

- By Callum Parke

THE search to find the mum of three babies abandoned in the same area over eight years has been narrowed down to just 400 homes.

Meanwhile, police have not ruled out a fourth newborn turning up.

Officers have visited homes in East Ham and Plaistow, East London, to find the siblings’ mother as experts think the person who abandoned the trio may have travelled from there.

Detectives asked people for voluntary DNA samples and want anyone with useful details to come forward.

The babies – later called Harry, Roman and Elsa – were left in 2017, 2019 and 2024 within a few miles of each other, which investigators have described as “unprecedented”.